ABSTRACT: At the end of 2016, approximately 1.5 million people were incarcerated in state and federal prisons (Carson, 2021), and more than half of these prisoners are parents of at least one minor child (Maruschak et al., 2021). Upon their release, most offenders return to their communities with the goal of making a better life for themselves. This includes finding employment, securing housing, overcoming addiction, and desisting from crime. Despite their intentions, many prisoners fail to achieve 'reentry success' due to the barriers they face after release. For example, offenders often lack the education and employment history necessary to find jobs or are unable to find resources that address substance abuse. Other barriers directly related to their incarceration, such as criminal records, may bar offenders from finding housing or increase their likelihood of experiencing stigma. The reentry process for parents is even more complex and often ladened with additional hardships. For example, parents may have difficulty providing financially for their children or finding childcare. Other parents may struggle to regain custody/visitation rights they lost while in prison, causing more financial burdens and emotional turmoil. After release, offenders may also be reunited with family. Establishing positive relationships with family members can increase family support and decrease family conflict, both of which are associated with better reentry outcomes (Berg & Huebner, 2011; Cobbina et al., 2012; Mowen & Visher, 2015; Boman & Mowen, 2017; Liu & Visher, 2021). However, released offenders often experience family tension, receive minimal support from family members, or have abusive relationships. For parents, reuniting with family also includes reuniting with their children. Few studies on parenthood during reentry have examined the impact of parents' relationships with their children, and what studies do exist find mixed results (e.g. Ganem & Agnew, 2007). To the extent that relationships with children operate similarly to other social ties, securing these relationships may be crucial for parents' reentry success. Furthermore, reentry processes, including 'reentry success,' vary by gender (Steffensmeier & Allan, 1996; Bloom et al., 2003; James & Glaze, 2006; Belknap, 2007; Byrne & Trew, 2008; Bakken & Visher, 2018; Pettus-Davis et al., 2018; Mowen & Boman, 2019). Women's histories with victimization, poor mental health, lower levels of education, tendency towards passive emotions, and inward coping styles contribute to their greater likelihood for problems with addiction and mental health after release. Men's histories of violence, longer criminal records, and tendency to cope with active emotions (e.g. anger) contribute to their greater likelihood for criminal behavior after release. Gender differences are also found in samples of mothers and fathers. Mothers are more likely to be their child's primary caregiver, suffer from mental illness, and express more emotions towards their children (Brown & Bloom, 2009; Glaze & Maruschak, 2010; Maruschak et al., 2021). Fathers are less likely to live with their children, serve longer sentences, and emphasize issues with gatekeepers (Glaze & Maruschak, 2010; Kjellstrand et al., 2012; Hlavka et al., 2015; Charles et al., 2019; McKay et al., 2019). However, available research often relies on narrative accounts from released parents and does not include samples of both mothers and fathers. This dissertation seeks to extend research on reentering parents by comparing samples of parents and non-parents, including a measure of parent-child relationship quality, and analyzing differences between mothers and fathers. To that end, data from the Serious and Violent Offender Initiative (SVORI) were used to examine the effect of parenthood, parent gender, and parent-child relationship quality on criminal behavior and mental health 15 months after release. Data consisted of four waves of interviews: 30 days prior to release and 3, 9, and 15 months after release. The final sample included 580 parents and 334 non-parents. From the parent sample, 151 participants were mothers and 429 were fathers. Four measures of criminal behavior were used, including re-incarceration, self-reported drug crimes, self-reported minor crimes, and self-reported interpersonal crimes. Two measures of mental health were used. The first measure was constructed using the Global Severity Index (GSI), which measured symptoms of psychological distress. The second measure was a self-report item that asked respondents to rate their overall mental health status from 'excellent' to 'poor'. In examining the reentry outcomes of released parents, several noteworthy findings emerge. Although not statistically significant, non-parents tended to have worse outcomes in criminal behavior. However, parenthood did appear to have an indirect effect on minor crimes. Parents were more likely to receive family support which in turn decreased their likelihood of minor offending. Key findings for the effects of gender also emerged. Fathers had worse outcomes in criminal behavior, although not significantly worse, and mothers had worse outcomes in mental health. Furthermore, gender had an indirect effect on re-incarceration. Specifically, mothers were less likely to return to prison due, at least in part, to their greater likelihood of being primary caregivers and lesser likelihood of having antisocial peers. Findings also highlighted the importance of parent-child relationships. For example, better relationships with children significantly reduced the likelihood of minor offending. Better parent-child relationships also had an indirect effect on symptoms of psychological distress.  Lastly, gender conditioned the effect of parent-child relationship quality on re-incarceration. Better relationships with children reduced the likelihood of returning to prison for mothers but not for fathers. In sum, these findings underscore the need for additional research on reentering parents. Theoretical implications can be made for theories of social bonds/control, general strain theory, and gender paradigms. Additionally, findings support the use of prison-based parenting programs (PBPPs) and provide suggestions for programming to better address the unique needs of parents, particularly as they relate to addressing differences between mothers and fathers.
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): April 4, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Gender, Mental health, Parent-child relationship quality, Parenthood, Re-incarceration, Reentry
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Brian J. Stults, Professor Directing Dissertation; Miles Taylor, University Representative; Carter Hay, Committee Member; Jillian J. Turanovic, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Criminology
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: RODRIGUEZ_fsu_0071E_16976.pdf
TITLE: Effective Instructional Strategies and Resources for English Learners: Closing the Achievement Gap in the Monroe County Public Schools
AUTHOR: Rodriguez, Christina,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Akiba, Motoko
MEMBER (university representative): McDowell, Stephen D., 1958-
MEMBER (committee member): Park, Toby J.
MEMBER (committee member): Milligan, Jeffrey Ayala
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Education
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Educational Leadership and PolicyStudies
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (80 pages)
ABSTRACT: The purposes of this exploratory survey research are: (1) to examine the degree to which best practices on language acquisition instructional strategies and resources are used across the ten schools in Monroe County School District (MCSD), (2) to understand the relationship teachers' preparation and background characteristics and language acquisition instructional strategies and resources, and (3) to investigate how the use of effective strategies and resources are associated with academic achievement and achievement growth of English Learners in MCSD. Closing the achievement gap between English Learners and their White native English-speaking peers has been a priority for the Monroe County School District (MCSD). Although instructional quality is critical for achievement of English Learners, little is known about what language acquisition instructional strategies and resources have been used by teachers of English Learners across ten schools in MCSD. Based on a districtwide survey of 169 teachers across 10 schools, I found that Hispanic teachers are significantly more likely to use effective instructional strategies and resources to assist English Learners. The study also found that teachers were more likely to use the effective instructional strategies and resources if they have attended an AVID, ELLevation, and WIDA professional development opportunity. Another significant finding is that secondary teachers are less likely than elementary teachers to use effective instructional strategies and resources. Recommendations and findings were shared with the Monroe County School District leadership team.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 1, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Motoko Akiba, Professor Directing Dissertation; Steve McDowell, University Representative; Toby Park, Committee Member; Jeff Milligan, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Educational leadership
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Rosario_fsu_0071E_16901.pdf
TITLE: An Examination of the Mediating Effects of Negative Emotionationality on the Relationship between Childhood Victimization and Juvenile Reoffending
AUTHOR: Rosario, Jordyn,
MEMBER (professor co-directing dissertation): Warren, Patricia Y.
MEMBER (professor co-directing dissertation): Stewart, Eric Allen
MEMBER (university representative): McWey, Lenore M.
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, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (160 pages)
ABSTRACT: Purpose: There is a rich history of research investigating victimization and juvenile offending. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the relationship between childhood victimization and juvenile reoffending in a sample of juvenile justice involved youth. Research has consistently demonstrated that there is a relationship between childhood victimization and delinquent and criminal behavior. Still, most youth who are victimized do not go on to offend. Nevertheless, many youth who have offended also report being victims. Therefore, it is important to understand the mechanisms through which victimization influences offending. Through the framework of Robert Agnew's (1993, 2001) general strain theory, this dissertation assesses whether victimization is one of the strains most likely to lead to delinquent and criminal behavior. Additionally, Agnew (2002) specifies negative emotionality as the mechanisms through which strain leads to offending. This dissertation also assesses the mediating role negative emotionality plays in the strain-crime relationship using a sample of juvenile justice involved youth in Florida from January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2015. Additionally, this research builds upon prior evidence by examining a high-risk population where all of the youth in the sample have offended. By doing so, it is a more nuanced assessment of reoffending with a high-risk sample that is more likely to have experienced victimization along with having a longer delinquent/criminal history. Furthermore, this research makes a significant contribution to prior research on negative emotionality by having a more complete measures that more closely parallels what was originally specified by Agnew (2001). Methods: In order to determine the effects of strain on negative emotionality, OLS regression is utilized while a series of logistic regression models are used to assess the direct effects of strain on juvenile reoffending and the mediating effects of negative emotionality. To further examine the magnitude of which negative emotionality mediates the relationship between childhood victimization and official juvenile reoffending, two techniques—the Karlson-Holm-Breen (KHB) decomposition method and marginal effects—are used. The decomposition method determines the percentage of relationship that is due to the mediator—in this case, negative emotionality. The marginal effects allow for a comparison between youth low and high in negative emotionality and how those levels impact the likelihood of juvenile reoffending. Results: Childhood victimization—exposure to violence, neglect, verbal abuse, and poly-victimization—has a direct effect on juvenile reoffending. When accounting for negative emotionality, the size of the direct effects are reduced indicating that mediation is occurring. The KHB decomposition method indicates the direct effect of victimization and juvenile reoffending is reduced between twenty-six and sixty-one percent when accounting for negative emotionality. Additionally, youth who are high in negative emotionality are between fifty and sixty-two percent more likely to reoffend than youth who are low in negative emotionality. Conclusion: This study finds support for Robert Agnew's (2002) concept of negative emotionality as a mediator between strain and criminal and delinquent behavior. While it does so only partially, the findings of this study imply that interventions targeting negative emotionality (e.g., positive coping mechanisms) can be directed towards youth who experience victimization.
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): March 25, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Patricia Y. Warren, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Eric A. Stewart, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Lenore McWey, University Representative; Sonja Siennick, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Criminology
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Rosenberger_fsu_0071E_16937.pdf
TITLE: Research Synthesis Methods and Their Application to Evidence-Based Medicine
AUTHOR: Rosenberger, Kristine,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Lin, Lifeng
MEMBER (university representative): Lyons, Lisa C.
MEMBER (committee member): Barrientos, Andrés Felipe
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, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (209 pages)
ABSTRACT: Meta-analysis is a valuable tool to synthesize evidence and pool results from multiple sources. It plays an integral role in evidence-based medicine and may have a direct impact in the clinical setting. This dissertation explores several topics related to research synthesis methods and their application to evidence-based medicine. Chapter 2 methodologically assesses the current systematic reviews and meta-analyses on COVID-19. COVID-19 has caused an ongoing public health crisis. Many systematic reviews and meta-analyses have been performed to synthesize evidence for better understanding this new disease. However, some concerns have been raised about rapid COVID-19 research. The current systematic reviews and meta-analyses on COVID-19 might suffer from low transparency, high heterogeneity, and suboptimal statistical methods. In chapter 3, we investigate the performance of several methods commonly used for meta-analyses of diagnostic studies, including the summary ROC (SROC) approach, bivariate linear mixed model (LMM), and generalized linear mixed model (GLMM). The variation of estimates calls into question the appropriateness of the normality assumption required by the SROC method and LMM. In cases of notable differences presented in these methods' results, the GLMM is preferred.Network meta-analysis (NMA), an extension of pairwise meta-analysis, is a statistical method often used to draw conclusions about multiple treatment comparisons. It simultaneously synthesizes both direct and indirect evidence, where the direct evidence comes from head-to-head trials, and the indirect evidence comes from indirect comparisons with common comparators. The prior choice of between-study heterogeneity is critical in Bayesian NMAs. Chapter 4 assesses recent NMAs published in high-impact medical journals to evaluate how conclusions differ based on the application of various prior distributions. We re-analyze the NMAs using 3 commonly-used non-informative priors and empirical informative log-normal priors. The informative priors produce substantially more precise estimates than non-informative priors, especially for NMAs with few studies. The surface under the cumulative ranking curve (SUCRA) and the P-score are increasingly used to quantify treatment ranking under the Bayesian and frequentist NMA frameworks, respectively. They provide summary scores of treatments among the existing studies in an NMA. Clinicians are frequently interested in applying such evidence from the NMA to future decision-making. The heterogeneity between existing studies in the NMA and the future study needs to be considered in this prediction process. Chapter 5 extends the frequentist treatment ranking measure, P-score, to the Bayesian framework and the future study setting, focusing on NMAs with binary outcomes. Two empirical examples are used to illustrate the proposed measure. Chapter 6 considers an extension of the approach presented in chapter 5 beyond binary data. Using an extensive database of NMAs identified in a recent survey, we re-perform all eligible NMAs and calculate the differences between treatment ranking measures and those between predictive treatment ranking measures. We investigate the empirical distribution of these differences and assessed the changes of treatment ranking measures when making predictions. The predictive P-score can help inform medical decision-making in future studies. Clinicians may use these findings to interpret the magnitudes of differences between treatment ranking measures and quantitively assess treatment rankings in future NMAs.
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): January 20, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Bayesian analysis, Heterogeneity, Meta-analysis, Network meta-analysis, Prediction, Treatment ranking
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Lifeng Lin, Professor Directing Dissertation; Lisa Lyons, University Representative; Andres Felipe Barrientos, Committee Member; Debajyoti Sinha, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Biometry
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Roy_fsu_0071E_16980.pdf
TITLE: Facets: Exploiting Semantic Equivalence of Files to Improve File System Services
AUTHOR: Roy, Robert,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Wang, An-I Andy
MEMBER (university representative): Hart, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1972-
MEMBER (committee member): Aggarwal, Sudhir
MEMBER (committee member): Duan, Zhenhai
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Computer Science
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (59 pages)
ABSTRACT: Traditionally, if two files are considered identical, they are understood to be byte-by-byte equivalent. However, many files are semantically identical without being byte-to-byte identical. We assert that by using a contextual or implicit notion of alikeness, new recovery mechanisms, caching algorithms, security protocols, and backup tools can be developed with a reduced storage overhead penalty and robust guarantees regarding secure deletion. To that end, we have developed and prototyped the Facets system, which leverages filtered provenance data to store and recover files, cache equivalent sets to improve performance, securely delete files, and minimize the overhead penalty incurred when performing backups. We view the Facets approach as broadly applicable and extensible within the realm of storage.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Computer Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): February 9, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Filesystem, Recovery, Semantic, Storage
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): An-I Wang, Professor Directing Dissertation; Robert Hart, University Representative; Sudhir Aggarwal, Committee Member; Zhenhai Duan, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Computer science
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Ruechel_fsu_0071E_17028.pdf
TITLE: The Achievement of American Identity in Aaron Copland's Works for Theater
AUTHOR: Ruechel, Nate,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Broyles, Michael, 1939-
MEMBER (university representative): Sinke, Suzanne M.
MEMBER (committee member): Von Glahn, Denise, 1950-
MEMBER (committee member): Brewer, Charles E. (Charles Everett)
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (249 pages)
ABSTRACT: Aaron Copland's music is commonly identified with experiences and values associated with the United States. This link between the American nation and Copland's music is a component of an enduring legacy that the composer began to construct during the apex of his career in the 1940s and 1950s. This dissertation interrogates the process of building this legacy and the lingering implications for America's social and cultural landscape that were a consequence of its construction through a study of Copland's works written specifically for and alluding to the theater, including Music for the Theatre (1925), Vitebsk (1929), Hear Ye! Hear Ye! (1934), The Second Hurricane (1937), Quiet City (1939), Rodeo (1942), Appalachian Spring (1945), and The Tender Land (1954). My project is informed by archival research in the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library, and interdisciplinary approaches drawn from critical theory, performance studies, and social psychology. The content of Copland's theatrical music is discussed in relation to the social, cultural, economic, and political conditions of their production. In addition, I also evaluate how these works contributed to the solidification of Copland's identification as an American and a composer of American music and the reification of a discernable white culture. In this dissertation the interpretation of meaning serves as a starting point for evaluating how Copland's music influences the perception of reality across space and time. Analyzing what these works do, in addition to what they say, acknowledges their distributive authorship, the collaborative nature of their genesis, and the implications of actions Copland took to shape his own legacy.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 21, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Aaron Copland, American Music, Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, The Tender Land, Theater
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Michael Broyles, Professor Directing Dissertation; Suzanne Sinke, University Representative; Denise Von Glahn, Committee Member; Charles E. Brewer, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: United States--History
SUBJECT: Theater--History
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Ruff_fsu_0071E_17113.pdf
TITLE: Culturing the Future of Seafood: Spatial and Theoretical Considerations for Marine Aquaculture Development
AUTHOR: Ruff, Elizabeth,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Lester, Sarah
MEMBER (university representative): Butler, William Hale
MEMBER (committee member): McCreary, Tyler
MEMBER (committee member): Uejio, Christopher K.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Social Sciences and Public Policy
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Geography
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (142 pages)
ABSTRACT: Marine aquaculture, the farming of aquatic species in ocean environments, has substantial potential to contribute to the global supply of seafood. However, despite the global growth of marine aquaculture (mariculture) in recent years, there is substantial heterogeneity in where and to what extent the industry is developing. Additionally, biophysical growing conditions alone do not explain a large proportion of the variation in production, indicating that the geographic patterns of industry expansion are likely driven by other (e.g., economic, political, social) factors. As such, this dissertation examines the role of these non-biophysical factors in the development of the mariculture industry through a regional case study and a global analysis. The regional case study evaluates the influence of governance mechanisms on mariculture production in the Caribbean, which has high production potential based on biophysical parameters but has only realized a fraction of its estimated potential. For this chapter, I developed a Mariculture Governance Index (MGI) to assess existing mariculture governance frameworks within each of 30 Caribbean countries. When compared to current production volumes, I found a significant association with the level of mariculture governance for a given country. Specifically, the few countries with production tended to have higher MGI scores. However, case studies of the few countries that produce mariculture but have low MGI scores found that training programs, professional organizations, and financing institutions could provide the necessary support for industry development in the absence of the governance components included in the Index. In addition to insights about mariculture development in the Caribbean, this chapter contributes an extensive literature review of governance in relation to mariculture generally and a systematic index that can be used to assess governance infrastructure in other regions. In the global analysis, I expand on the Caribbean findings to quantitatively assess the extent to which governance, socioeconomic, and biophysical factors explain country-level patterns of mariculture production. Using multivariate statistics and global datasets, I assess the impact of 11 predictor variables on 1) whether a country has any mariculture production (yes or no) and 2) what volume of mariculture production a country has. The results of my analysis indicate that countries with large wild fisheries industries and high levels of development are most likely to have some level of mariculture production. Further, both of these factors as well as the existence of a freshwater aquaculture industry are associated with higher volumes of mariculture production. This chapter is the first multivariate, interdisciplinary assessment of factors influencing mariculture production and provides a foundation for a new research agenda that will improve our understanding of where and why the mariculture industry develops. The findings from the regional and global analyses indicate that governance and socioeconomic dynamics are highly influential but poorly understood drivers of the expanding mariculture industry. Geographers are well-positioned to explore and provide insight on these dynamics but have been relatively absent from the mariculture scholarship, particularly in comparison to other disciplines. To account for geographic participation in the mariculture literature, I conduct a review of the top 50 geography journals (as ranked by Clarivate Analytics), identifying 45 publications from 1990-2020 that focus on farming seafood in ocean spaces. In my review of this literature, I identify existing foundations for a maricultural geography in the arenas of political economy, political ecology, and science and technology studies and trace the evolution of these discourses over time. Lastly, I outline three pathways for further disciplinary engagement through the lenses of food and feminist geographies as well as social studies of science. Taken together, these chapters spatially and theoretically engage with mariculture and situate the industry within geography's broader agro-food discourses. Further, this work contributes to a nascent body of literature seeking to understand the role of mariculture in our global food system. Here, I have started to untangle the network of socionatural assemblages that shape the development of the mariculture industry by looking at development at different scales and employing both qualitative and quantitative techniques.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Geography in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 30, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Sarah Lester, Professor Directing Dissertation; William Butler, University Representative; Tyler McCreary, Committee Member; Christopher Uejio, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Geography
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Rushing_fsu_0071N_17053.pdf
TITLE: Fitting Diminishment of Anger
AUTHOR: Rushing, Renee,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Clarke, Randolph K.
MEMBER (committee member): Westlund, Andrea C. (Andrea Carol)
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Philosophy
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (38 pages)
ABSTRACT: There has been recent discussion of a puzzle posed by emotions that are backward looking. Though our emotions commonly diminish over time, how can they diminish fittingly if they are an accurate appraisal of an event that is situated in the past? In this paper I give some background information on the problem, and I explain Agnes Callard's solution to what she terms "the eternal anger argument." I explain some problems with her account as well as insights of her account that have influenced my own. I then argue that anger can fittingly diminish even when there is lack of contrition, and I propose a sort of permisivism about fittingness by showing that anger is not the only fitting response to blameworthy behavior, compassion is also a fitting response. I then respond to some worries my account raises, and I clarify some details of my account to show that it is not unrealistic to the way some of our anger actually does diminish.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the Department of Philosophy in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 25, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Randolph Clarke, Professor Directing Thesis; Andrea Westlund, Committee Member; Mercela Herdova, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Philosophy
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Russell_fsu_0071E_17020.pdf
TITLE: Improving Student Outcomes in Online Stem Courses through Enhanced Interpersonal Communication on Problem-Solving Techniques
AUTHOR: Russell, Christopher,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Iatarola, Patrice
MEMBER (university representative): Hines, Erik M.
MEMBER (committee member): Guthrie, Kathy L.
MEMBER (committee member): Hu, Shouping
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Education
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (86 pages)
ABSTRACT: Online courses have become an important part of a student's academic career. The variety and number of online course offerings grow each year. Unfortunately, there are a few drawbacks to current online courses, including differences between success rates of general education courses and their face-to-face counterparts. Current research indicates the difference in success rates can be attributed to interpersonal communication barriers, collaborative learning issues, and the lack of online support systems. With online science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses, the difference in success rates can be as high as 14%—compared to only 5% for general education courses. Multiple studies have examined why STEM courses fare so much worse than general education courses online. Research has yet to identify any student characteristic that can explain the difference. In this dissertation, I argue the primary issue relates to interpersonal communication. Interpersonal communication is vital in developing a successful online course. STEM courses introduce an interpersonal communication barrier between faculty and students because they often involve special symbols, characters, and a problem solving process that cannot easily be typed. The inability of students to handwrite a note or sketch the process used to solve a problem creates a transactional distance in communication, which can lead to delays, misunderstandings, and frustration for students and faculty within the course. In this study, I introduced the ability to handwrite directly in assessments through the addition of a sketchpad and a show-your-work box on every question in homework, quizzes, and exams. The difference between intervention and control students' exams was ≈4%. Pell Grant-eligible students performed ≈6% better on exams, improving more than the average intervention student. The largest improvement was seen among students who had no previous grade point average (GPA), meaning they were first-time college students. These students in the intervention group scored an average of 10% higher on exams when compared to similar students in control courses—the largest difference found in this study. The ≈4% difference in intervention and control groups did not vary by race, gender, or first-generational status. Students with high previous GPA's saw little to no difference in exam scores; their exam scores were above average in both intervention and control courses. There was little difference in female students in the intervention and control courses. Female students scored, on average, higher than their male counterparts in both conditions. However, male students in the intervention courses showed significantly higher scores than male students in the control courses, thus closing the gap between female and male achievement. Students who were not Pell Grant-eligible showed less than the average 4% difference between conditions. Beyond higher exam scores, students in the intervention classes had 4% lower withdrawal rates when compared with students in the control classes. Students indicated improved interpersonal communication and instructor feedback positively influenced their experience. When combined, higher exam scores and lower withdrawal rates led to a 7% improvement in overall success rates in the intervention courses. This finding, when compared with students in the control classes, translates into seven more students across three intervention classes succeeding and moving on to the next math course. Findings reinforce the importance of interpersonal communication for student success in online courses. Students with no previous GPA and Pell Grant-eligible students can benefit from targeted extra efforts in communication that help improve the probability of successful course completion.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 8, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Patrice Iatarola, Professor Directing Dissertation; Erik Hines, University Representative; Kathy Guthrie, Committee Member; Shouping Hu, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Education, Higher--Administration
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Sadguna_fsu_0071E_16998.pdf
TITLE: The Art of Balinese Kendang: Drumming, Improvisation, Interaction, and Dance Accompaniment in Gamelan Gong Kebyar
AUTHOR: Sadguna, I Gde Made Indra,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Bakan, Michael B.
MEMBER (university representative): Clendinning, Jane Piper
MEMBER (committee member): Brewer, Charles E. (Charles Everett)
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (150 pages)
ABSTRACT: This dissertation investigates the complexities of improvisatory practices in Balinese kendang (drumming), focusing on solo and paired drumming styles found within the gong kebyar ensemble. Improvisation studies scholar Paul Berliner states that "improvisation depends, in fact, on thinkers having absorbed a broad base of musical knowledge, including myriad conventions that contribute to formulating ideas logically, cogently, and expressively" (1994, 492). Drawing from Berliner's statement, I demonstrate how Balinese drummers think and talk about improvisation and how those cognitive and discursive processes manifest in actual performance practice. In particular, I focus on the improvisatory approaches, practices, and philosophy of the renowned gong kebyar drummer I Ketut Sukarata in three different contexts: paired drumming, solo drumming, and drumming for dance accompaniment. Although several authoritative works have been written on drumming in Balinese music (e.g., Asnawa 1991; Bakan 1999; Tenzer 2000a; Hood 2001; Sudirana 2009; Tilley 2019; Pryatna 2020), most of the ethnomusicological literature to date has given little if any significant attention to the improvisational dimensions of drumming. This has resulted in a lacuna of research on improvisation in Balinese music and drumming, to the point that improvisation has come to be regarded as a relatively minor component of drumming practice, at least until very recently. However, my research and more than twenty years of performing and experiencing Balinese drumming, including seventeen years of intensive studies with Sukarata, shows that improvisation is indeed a fundamental and essential component of the art form. My research, which combines the methods of music ethnography and music-theoretical approaches, as influenced most specifically by the work of other researchers engaged with the interdisciplinary field of music scholarship known as analytical approaches to world music (e.g., Tenzer 2006a; Tenzer and John Roeder 2011; Roeder and Tenzer 2012; McGraw 2008; 2013; McGraw and Kohnen 2016), fundamentally reconstitutes analytical methods to the study of improvisation in Balinese drumming and, by extension, in Balinese gamelan music more broadly.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 23, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Drumming, Ethnomusicology, Gamelan Bali, Gong Kebyar, Improvisation, Kendang
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Michael B. Bakan, Professor Directing Dissertation; Jane P. Clendinning, University Representative; Charles E. Brewer, Committee Member; David Detweiler, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Music
SUBJECT: Asia--Study and teaching
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Santos_fsu_0071E_17041.pdf
TITLE: An Original Composition for Wind Orchestra as a Guide for Creating Literature-Specific Instructional Materials for Afro-Cuban Musical Interpretation
AUTHOR: Santos, E. Giovanni,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Clary, Richard
MEMBER (university representative): Callender, Clifton
MEMBER (committee member): Madsen, Clifford K.
MEMBER (committee member): Dunnigan, Patrick, 1957-
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (85 pages)
ABSTRACT: The world of wind band music is diverse, eclectic, and creative. Works for wind band serve as a curricular tool in rehearsal halls across the world. This project, with the use of a new composition for wind band, serves as a tool for cultural and musical exploration and provides literature-specific teaching materials that will enhance the conductors understanding of Afro-Cuban rhythms, musical culture, and interpretation. Danzas will serve as a map for historical exploration, musical study and interpretation, and phrasal integrity and authenticity.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 18, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Richard Clary, Professor Directing Dissertation; Clifton Callender, University Representative; Clifford K. Madsen, Committee Member; Patrick Dunnigan, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Music--Instruction and study
SUBJECT: Music
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Sanusi_fsu_0071E_17156.pdf
TITLE: A Simulation-Based Optimization of Multiyear Infrastructure Planning for Connected and Automated Vehicles
AUTHOR: Sanusi, Fehintola,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Choi, Juyeong
MEMBER (university representative): Harvey, Bruce A., 1961-
MEMBER (committee member): Sobanjo, John Olusegun, 1958-
MEMBER (committee member): Moses, Ren
MEMBER (committee member): Li, Lichun
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (187 pages)
ABSTRACT: A wide adoption of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) is anticipated in the near future given their demonstrated benefits of the in terms of safety, mobility, and environmental sustainability. Such prediction highlights a need to prepare the roadway infrastructure to facilitate safer and more reliable operation of these technologies. While acknowledging this notion, many state and local planning agencies have developed multiyear infrastructure programs for successful deployment of CAVs in a timely manner within their limited budgets. Meanwhile, the traffic environment does not remain static but will evolve over time as CAV technologies become available (i.e., toward the mixed environment of autonomous and human-driven vehicles), which requires infrastructure plans specific to different planning terms (i.e., short-, middle-, and long-term) to accommodate changing infrastructure needs. To develop an effective long-range plan, planning agencies need to understand changing infrastructure needs over time, identify alternative infrastructure options for different planning terms, and develop an optimal portfolio of CAV infrastructure projects, based on the varying infrastructure needs of the traffic environment. This study develops an analytical framework to guide a holistic approach to multiyear infrastructure planning for CAVs. To be more specific, the proposed framework uses a five-step approach. First, the framework uses a systematic literature review to identify a group of infrastructure options to support CAV system functions (e.g., merging and platooning). The next step is to prioritize roadway locations in need of infrastructure improvement based on the potential contribution of CAVs to their local traffic through a geographical information system analysis. To predict future infrastructure needs, the framework develops a generalized Bass diffusion model to forecast CAV adoption rates for short-, medium-, and long-term planning phases. Fourth, a traffic micro-simulation model is employed to evaluate the performance of the future mixed traffic environment under various infrastructure planning scenarios. Lastly, a genetic algorithm-based metaheuristic optimization model is proposed to guide effective selection of an optimal infrastructure plan that improves traffic performance in the entire network while minimizing the cost of implementation of infrastructure options for each planning term. As a proof concept, this study demonstrates the application of the proposed multiyear infrastructure planning framework for CAVs with a case study of selected freeway segments on Interstate-4 in Florida state. Results of the analysis indicate that the proposed method can identify optimal infrastructure plans comprising of optimal set of infrastructure improvements that can minimize travel time while satisfying budgetary constraints. It is also observed that the proposed framework consistently allocates more than 50% of the budget to the long-term planning phase while it seeks to evenly distribute the remaining budget between the medium-term and short-term planning phases. This analytical framework can therefore serve as a useful tool to decision makers to guide an effective multiyear CAV infrastructure plan for their transportation system.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 5, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Juyeong Choi, Professor Directing Dissertation; Bruce Harvey, University Representative; John Sobanjo, Committee Member; Ren Moses, Committee Member; Lichun Li, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Civil engineering
SUBJECT: Transportation--Planning
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Saunders_fsu_0071E_17036.pdf
TITLE: Examining the Effects of an Online Self-Talk Intervention on Public Speaking Anxiety and Speech Performance
AUTHOR: Saunders, Carol,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Jordan-Jackson, Felecia F.
MEMBER (university representative): Schwartz, Robert A.
MEMBER (committee member): Lustria, Mia Liza A.
MEMBER (committee member): Raney, Arthur A.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Communication and Information
CORPORATE NAME: School of Communication
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (186 pages)
ABSTRACT: ABSTRACTPublic speaking is considered a valuable and necessary skill in professional, academic, and social contexts. However, research shows that public speaking anxiety is the top social fear for most people. Whereas public speaking anxiety exists among physical, cognitive, and behavioral dimensions, psychological approaches to intervention typically target cognitions. Negative self-talk is a component of cognitive anxiety, and interventions to improve self-talk have been widely implemented in clinical and sports psychology disciplines. This study examined the effects of a novel online self-talk intervention on public speaking anxiety reduction and speech performance ratings. The study also explored participants' perceptions of the intervention on reducing speech anxiety, improving speech performance, improving speech self-talk, and increasing speech self-efficacy of students in the college public speaking classroom context. This quasi-experimental research study utilized a convenience sample of 149 students enrolled in the public speaking basic course at a small, rural, state college in the southeastern United States region. The study included experimental and control groups. Data were analyzed primarily using quantitative methods with a smaller qualitative component. Results showed no significant differences between experimental and control groups in speech anxiety reduction, as assessed by the Personal Report of Public Speaking Anxiety (PRPSA) (McCroskey, 1970) and the Speech Anxiety Thoughts Inventory (SATI) (Cho et al., 2004) when comparisons were made from the beginning of the semester until the end. Speech anxiety in both the experimental group, which received skills training and the online self-talk intervention, and the control group, which received skills training alone, decreased from pre-test to post-test. Hierarchical multi-regression analyses revealed no significant predictor variables in terms of groups (experimental or control), gender, ethnicity, or college classification; however, PRPSA and SATI pre-test scores were found to be significant predictors of speech anxiety reduction. Results suggested that the majority of participants in the experimental group perceived the intervention as at least somewhat beneficial in reducing their speech anxiety, improving their speech performance, improving their speech self-talk, and increasing their speech self-efficacy. The participants indicated that the intervention was particularly beneficial in improving their speech self-talk and increasing their speech self-efficacy. Future research should focus on extending investigations on self-talk interventions on cognitive speech related variables, as the results here have implications for benefits not only to students, but for society at large.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the School of Communication in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): February 4, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): intervention, public speaking anxiety, self-talk
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Felecia F. Jordan-Jackson, Professor Directing Dissertation; Robert Schwartz, University Representative; Mia Liza A. Lustria, Committee Member; Arthur Raney, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Communication
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Savedge_fsu_0071N_17206.pdf
TITLE: Examining the Effects of Using the Name, Image, and Likeness of Female College Athletes to Endorse a Product on Social Media
AUTHOR: Savedge, Alexandra,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Raney, Arthur A.
MEMBER (committee member): Houck, Davis W.
MEMBER (committee member): Clayton, Russell B.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Communication and Information
CORPORATE NAME: School of Communication
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (57 pages)
ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to examine how name, image, and likeness (NIL) representations of female college athletes in social media endorsements may impact users' attitudes and behavioral intentions with regard to female athlete's personal brands, female athletics, and product brands. This study focused specifically on Florida State University (FSU), which boasts numerous highly successful female sports programs. Through the use of a survey, this study examined participants' attitudes and intended behaviors after viewing two social media endorsements. The results of this study found that participants with greater fanship toward FSU sports and toward female sports in general reported more favorable attitudes towards the advertisements.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the School of Communication in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 6, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Arthur A. Raney, Professor Directing Thesis; Davis W. Houck, Committee Member; Russell Clayton, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Communication
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Sebeny_fsu_0071E_17139.pdf
TITLE: Southern Empire: Richard Byrd and the American Antarctic
AUTHOR: Sebeny, Hillary,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Piehler, G. Kurt
MEMBER (university representative): Souva, Mark A.
MEMBER (committee member): Doel, Ronald Edmund
MEMBER (committee member): Frank, Andrew, 1970-
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, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (362 pages)
ABSTRACT: Using the Antarctic expeditions of Richard E. Byrd as a frame of reference, this dissertation places Antarctica in a more central role in our understanding of the United States in the mid-twentieth century. Scholarship on American imperialism frequently neglects the nation's relationship with Antarctica, since the US never formally claimed territory on the continent, but Byrd's efforts to establish an American territory or settler colony in the region challenge these assumptions. From his headquarters at the pseudo-frontier town of Little America, and back in the US, Byrd created an American alternative to the European polar explorers of the "Heroic Age" whom he admired, rooted in Southern concepts of honor and masculinity. While Antarctica lacked indigenous human populations, it did not prove a tabula rasa on which Byrd could easily replicate American colonization scrubbed of its less-pleasant elements, and a study of the exploration writing produced by Byrd and his contemporaries reveals the unique ways in which US Antarctic history is written. Often credited as an early promoter of the internationalist system codified by the 1959 Antarctic Treaty System, close analysis of Byrd and his influences complicates that understanding.
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): March 28, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): G. Kurt Piehler, Professor Directing Dissertation; Mark Souva, University Representative; Ronald E. Doel, Committee Member; Andrew K. Frank, Committee Member; George S. Williamson, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: United States--History
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Seigler_fsu_0071N_17263.pdf
TITLE: The Effect of Age of Gender Transition on the Use of Mitigating Phrases in the Speech of Transgender Men
AUTHOR: Seigler, Linda Madison,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Muntendam, Antje
MEMBER (committee member): Leeser, Michael J.
MEMBER (committee member): Sunderman, Gretchen L.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (74 pages)
ABSTRACT: Research about how gender affects speech has until recently strictly involved cisgender men and cisgender women (Kiesling, 2019; Newman et al., 2008; Rosanti & Jaelani, 2015). Because of this, the speech of transgender men and women has gone largely unexplored (Kiesling, 2019, p. 53). This study focuses on mitigating phrases, which are "a means of conveying vagueness purposely" (Rosanti & Jaelani, 2015, p. 31); some examples in English are in my opinion and sort of. Previous studies have shown that cisgender women use mitigating phrases more than cisgender men (Lakoff, 1973; Priesler, 1986) and that socialization is a key factor in the development of speech patterns (Ochs, 1991; Zimman, 2018). This leads to the question of how transgender men's speech patterns develop. In this research, a cisgender man will be defined as someone who was assigned male at birth and continues to identify as a man, and a transgender man is someone who was assigned female at birth but transitioned to identifying as a man socially or medically. I posit that transgender men who transition before the age of 13 will have patterns more similar to those of cisgender men due to socialization as men, and those who transition after the age of 13 will have patterns more similar to those of cisgender women due to socialization as a woman. This study measured the use of mitigating phrases in the Spanish speech of transgender men who transitioned before the age of 13 and after the age of 13 during a sociolinguistic interview. The interview elicited the use of mitigating phrases through questions that ask the participant about their life and experiences as a transgender person, which can be responded to in the form of an opinion (using mitigating phrases), or as a fact (without the use of mitigating phrases). Each mitigating phrase was categorized by internal and external factors, including type of mitigating phrase, if it is epistemic or affective, and age of transition of the speaker. The results revealed that although cisgender men used the most mitigating phrases on average, followed by transitioned before puberty and finally transitioned after puberty, individuals had no clear pattern. There was also not a gender preference for any type of mitigating phrase, rather a general preference for certain structures. Because of this, it is likely that gender is not the central factor in use of mitigating phrases, but rather environment. It is also possible that gender preference for this structure is a phenomenon within American English and does not extend to Spanish speaking communities. This research builds on queer linguistics theories in order to affirm the identities of trans people and finally include them in the body of research of gender and speech.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 31, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Discourse Analysis, Gender Studies, Linguistics, Mitigating Phrases, Sociolinguistics, Transgender
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Antje Muntendam, Professor Directing Thesis; Michael Leeser, Committee Member; Gretchen Sunderman, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Linguistics
SUBJECT: Languages, Modern
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Shafer_fsu_0071E_17019.pdf
TITLE: Youth Peer Processes as Mediators of the Relation between Youth Anxious Solitude and Young Adult Problematic Media Use
AUTHOR: Shafer, Jessie,
MEMBER (university representative): Bunz, Ulla
MEMBER (committee member): Cui, Ming, 1971-
MEMBER (committee member): Fincham, Frank D.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Health and Human Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Human Development and Family Science
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (108 pages)
ABSTRACT: Over the past few decades, media and technology use have become increasingly significant components of everyday life. Given media's ubiquitous usage across the lifespan, it is important to understand what puts individuals at risk for engaging in problematic media use. Thus, the current study aimed to explore youth affective-behavioral vulnerability and peer processes as predictors of excessive and problematic media use in young adulthood. Specifically, anxious solitude and peer exclusion trajectory classes in elementary school (3rd to 5th grade) were explored as predictors of young adult media behaviors. Further, membership in anxious solitude and peer exclusion trajectory classes in middle school (6th to 7th grade) were tested as explanatory processes (mediators) in the link between elementary school trajectory class membership and young adult media use. For the trajectory class analysis, participants were 688 youths who had taken part in the Multiple Trajectories in Anxious Solitary Youth study (female n = 354; 51.5%). Latent class growth analysis (LCGA) was used to identify trajectories of peer-reported peer exclusion in childhood (trajectories of peer-reported anxious solitude with this data have been identified in the extant literature; Gazelle & Faldowski, 2019). Separate analyses were conducted for elementary and middle school to allow for different trajectory patterns to emerge after the middle school transition. Three peer exclusion trajectory classes were identified in elementary school (low-stable, moderate-stable, and high-increasing) and two in middle school (low-stable and high-increasing) with latent class growth analyses (LCGA). In Gazelle and Faldowski's (2019) study, two anxious solitude trajectory classes were identified in elementary school (moderate-decreasing and high-increasing) and three in middle school (low-stable, low-increasing, and high-decreasing). For the main analysis, participants were 118 young adults (female n = 76; 64%; M age at survey completion = 22.8 years, SD = 0.84) who had been prospectively assessed from 3rd to 7th grade in the Multiple Trajectories in Anxious Solitary Youth study. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to investigate the influence of anxious solitude and peer exclusion trajectory class membership (in elementary school) on excessive and problematic media use in young adulthood. Further, middle school trajectory classes (both anxious solitude and peer exclusion) were tested as mediators of this link. In partial support of the direct effect hypotheses, membership in the elementary school high-increasing anxious solitude trajectory class and high-increasing peer exclusion trajectory class predicted more hours per day spent playing video games in young adulthood. Additionally, elementary school moderate-stable peer exclusion trajectory class membership predicted more time spent using social media and the internet for entertainment in young adulthood. Finally, although the mediation hypothesis was not supported, mediation analyses revealed that middle school low-increasing anxious solitude trajectory class membership fully mediated the link between elementary school high-increasing anxious solitude trajectory class membership and more time playing video games in young adulthood. Further, middle school high-increasing peer exclusion trajectory class membership partially mediated the link between elementary school high-increasing peer exclusion trajectory class and less time using social media in young adulthood. This study suggests that young adults with a history of anxious solitude or peer exclusion in elementary school may be especially vulnerable to excessive media use as young adults. Further, this study highlights how continuity and different developmental pathways of anxious solitude and peer exclusion may explain why some anxious solitary and excluded youths spend more (or less) time using media than their anxious solitary and excluded counterparts. Limitations, future research directions, and implications of the study are discussed.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Human Development and Family Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 23, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Anxious Solitude, Developmental Trajectories, Media, Peer Exclusion, Technology
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Heidi Gazelle, Professor Directing Dissertation; Ulla Bunz, University Representative; Ming Cui, Committee Member; Frank Fincham, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Developmental psychology
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Shen_fsu_0071E_16860.pdf
TITLE: Slow Kill for Big Data Learning
AUTHOR: Shen, Jiahui,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): She, Yiyuan
MEMBER (university representative): Wu, Zhaohua
MEMBER (committee member): Niu, Xufeng, 1954-
MEMBER (committee member): Barbu, Adrian G., 1971-
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Statistics
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (64 pages)
ABSTRACT: Big-data applications typically involve huge numbers of observations and features, thus posing new challenges for variable selection and parameter estimation. In addition to being efficient, the desired algorithm is better to have implementation ease. An ad-hoc procedure may be fragile, and an algorithm design on the basis of optimization, rather than heuristics, is preferred. Meanwhile, methods such as LASSO or screening algorithms are derived assuming mildly correlated features. These assumptions make it possible to eliminate features in an aggressive manner, but may be too stringent to hold for real-life high dimensional applications.The paper proposes a novel "slow kill" (SK) technique on the basis of nonconvex constrained optimization, which gradually identifies and removes irrelevant variables with adaptive ℓ2-shrinkage and growing learning rate. That the problem size can drop during the iterations of SK makes it particularly suitable for large-scale variable selection. The interplay between statistics and optimization leads to insightful results on quantile control, stepsize and shrinkage parameters to relax the regularity conditions under which the desire order of statistical accuracy is guaranteed. The theoretical study justifies the optimal error rate and fast convergence of SK, without assuming asymptotic conditions or globally optimal solutions. The technique applies to a general loss that is not necessarily a likelihood function. In addition, no grid search is required to find a solution with a prescribed cardinality, which exempts the unnecessary expensive computational cost when tuning the regularization parameters. Experiments on synthetic data show that SK outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in various situations while being extremely computationally scalable. Moreover, the performances on various real data examples including spam websites identification, digit recognition and gene expression further demonstrated the power of the proposed method.
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): February 7, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Yiyuan She, Professor Directing Dissertation; Zhaohua Wu, University Representative; Xufeng Niu, Committee Member; Adrian Barbu, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Statistics
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Sherrod_fsu_0071N_17039.pdf
TITLE: Flash Droughts in the Wake of Landfalling Atlantic Tropical Cyclones
AUTHOR: Sherrod, Tyler John Michael,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Misra, Vasubandhu, 1970-
MEMBER (committee member): Hart, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1972-
MEMBER (committee member): Fuelberg, Henry E.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (70 pages)
ABSTRACT: A new methodology has been introduced to detect flash droughts. This method is based off a new variable created called the drought index. This index is calculated using the cumulative daily anomalies of soil moisture, precipitation, and surface temperature. The viability of this methodology is tested using confirmed flash drought case studies from previous studies. The advantage of the drought index is that it allows for the identification of the flash drought period in a more objective manner than earlier studies. While relatively uncommon, it is possible for flash droughts to develop in the environment created post-landfall of an Atlantic Tropical Cyclone (TC). The new flash drought detection method created was then used to detect flash droughts in the wake of landfalling Atlantic TCs. Of the thirty landfalling Atlantic TCs examined between 2000 and 2018, only four cases resulted in the development of a flash drought. Despite TCs causing an increase in soil moisture, the decrease in precipitation and increase in surface temperature post-landfall in these four cases resulted in the development of a flash drought. When these flash droughts did occur, it was in conjunction with an already existing large-scale drought in the vicinity of the landfall. This suggests that the flash droughts extended the reach of the large-scale droughts to the landfall region of the TC.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 3, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Vasubandhu Misra, Professor Directing Thesis; Robert Hart, Committee Member; Henry Fuelberg, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Meteorology
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Shi_fsu_0071E_16991.pdf
TITLE: Statistical Methods for Assessing Publication Bias and Heterogeneity in Meta-Analysis
AUTHOR: Shi, Linyu,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Lin, Lifeng
MEMBER (university representative): Wang, Yanchang, (Biomedical Sciences Professor)
MEMBER (committee member): Slate, Elizabeth H.
MEMBER (committee member): Bradley, Jonathan R.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Statistics
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (96 pages)
ABSTRACT: Meta-analysis has been a popular statistical tool to combine scientific findings from multiple studies addressing the same topic. Publication bias and heterogeneity are two critical issues that may influence the validity of the synthesized results. This dissertation focuses on statistical methods and applications for assessing these two issues in meta-analyses of medical research, including empirically evaluating the trim-and-fill method, summarizing various Egger-type regressions, proposing a Bayesian model to assess publication bias, and extending the Bayesian framework to quantify between-study heterogeneity. Firstly, we implement the widely-used trim-and-fill method, which can both detect and adjust publication bias, to a large database of meta-analyses in the Cochrane Library and investigate its overall empirical performance. The findings offer practical guidelines and recommendations for the proper application of the method. Secondly, we examine the most popular method, Egger's regression test, to assess publication bias. As the error term in the original regression test was not specified, several variants of this regression are summarized and compared; their performance is investigated based on 51 high-quality meta-analyses collected from the BMJ. Thirdly, although Egger's regression is simple and easy to implement, it shows inflated false positive rates for meta-analyses with binary outcomes. Therefore, we further propose a new approach to assessing publication bias via Bayesian hierarchical models to reduce the inflation of false positive rates for meta-analyses of odds ratios. The proposed method is evaluated by conducting simulations, real-world analysis, and sensitivity analysis. Lastly, the assessment of heterogeneity in the meta-analysis may be underestimated due to sampling errors. We extend the Bayesian framework to quantify heterogeneity in meta-analyses of odds ratios, which aims to account for the non-ignorable sampling errors. The Bayesian approach produces more acceptable results compared to the frequentist method in specific settings, especially for those meta-analyses of small studies with relatively rare event rates.
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): February 24, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Lifeng Lin, Professor Directing Dissertation; Yanchang Wang, University Representative; Elizabeth Slate, Committee Member; Jonathan Bradley, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Biometry
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Siegler_fsu_0071E_17153.pdf
TITLE: Privatizing the Public in Revolutionary France, 1789-1815
AUTHOR: Siegler, Richard, III
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Blaufarb, Rafe
MEMBER (university representative): Boutin, Aimée, 1970-
MEMBER (committee member): McClive, Catherine
MEMBER (committee member): Upchurch, Charles, 1969-
MEMBER (committee member): Wood, Laurie M. (Laurie Marie) (Laurie Marie)
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of History
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (202 pages)
ABSTRACT: While we imagine modern France as a nation with a vibrant and powerful public sector, many of its most essential tasks in resource and infrastructure management, as well as services such as water, gas and electric utilities are largely provided by private entities today. This should not surprise us if we take a much longer view of French history as the early modern France state was firmly grounded in privatizing all kinds of public infrastructure and resources. The French revolutionaries set themselves the task of abolishing the principles that undergirded the Old Regime, including privatization, and imagined a new ideal of public control of France's infrastructure, taxes, and other kinds of public powers like justice. But this process was halted by the fiscal realities of the fledgling French republic. Instead of persevering with public administration of the nation's greatest assets, the revolutionaries slowly reinstituted privatization as the dominant mode of administering France's public services and properties. By challenging more typical narratives of the French Revolution as a break with the Old Regime past, this dissertation argues that it was more of a realignment and reimagining of Old Regime legal and financial tools for revolutionary purposes. It further argues that the familiar modern dichotomy between, privatization and public control, is a product of the French Revolution. The debates in revolutionary France over infrastructure and taxes crystallized new ways of thinking about the role of the modern state and its responsibilities to the public, the limits of that state, and framed powerful arguments about the desirability of privatization over public control. Arguments that continue to dominate contemporary global debates over privatization and the ever-expanding control of public property by international corporations.
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): March 31, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Entrepreneurship, European History, French Revolution, Old Regime, Privatization, Public Power
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Rafe Blaufarb, Professor Directing Dissertation; Aimée Boutin, University Representative; Cathy McClive, Committee Member; Charles Upchurch, Committee Member; Laurie Wood, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: History
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Simeon_fsu_0071N_17222.pdf
TITLE: The Effect of Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation on Gait Performance in Individuals with Neurological Disorders: An Integrative Review
AUTHOR: Simeon, Lauren,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Gooding, Lori F. (Lori Fogus)
MEMBER (committee member): Standley, Jayne M.
MEMBER (committee member): VanWeelden, Kimberly D.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (53 pages)
ABSTRACT: The purpose of this review was to examine and integrate the current available information on Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation (RAS) and gait performance of individuals with neurological disorders, to support music therapists' clinical decision-making, and to identify the areas in which more research is needed. The subjects in this review (N = 37) were articles about the effects of RAS on neurological disorders that were gathered across three levels of searches according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. Searches were conducted on FSU OneSearch, on Journal of Music Therapy and Music Therapy Perspectives, and on the list of research under RAS on the Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy website. Overall, RAS appeared to be an effective form of treatment for individuals with multiple neurological disorders. RAS led to statistically significant improvements in gait performance in treatment when compared with other forms of treatment. Certain aspects of gait performance, including balance and the temporospatial parameters of cadence, velocity, stride length, and gait speed were the most often assessed characteristics of gait. Clinical reasons for recommendation of treatment including RAS for neurological disorders were generally broad and exploratory. Though results of the review were positive, there was also a lack of research found on RAS with all neurological disorders and on the way in which RAS affects the many characteristics of gait. More research is needed to better understand the potential benefits of RAS and to determine how to give more specific clinical recommendations for individuals in the future. Further details will be discussed in this thesis.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 5, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): gait, Neurologic Music Therapy, neurological disorders, Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Lori F. Gooding, Professor Directing Thesis; Jayne M. Standley, Committee Member; Kimberly D. VanWeelden, Committee Member.
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Smith_fsu_0071E_16883.pdf
TITLE: Predictors of Narrative and Expository Writing Quality in Adults
AUTHOR: Smith, Kathryn,
MEMBER (professor co-directing dissertation): Whalon, Kelly J.
MEMBER (professor co-directing dissertation): Steacy, Laura M., 1981-
MEMBER (university representative): Roehrig, Alysia D., 1975-
MEMBER (committee member): Myers, John P. (John Patrick)
MEMBER (committee member): Compton, Donald L., 1960-
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Education
CORPORATE NAME: School of Teacher Education
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (122 pages)
ABSTRACT: ABSTRACTPurpose. This study focused on factors that contributed to writing quality in adults who were pursuing a General Educational Development (GED) diploma through an adult basic education program and university students who were pursuing a college degree. We explored the role of transcription (handwriting and spelling), working memory, oral language, and discourse knowledge in the writing process and the extent to which each component contributed to the writing quality of adults. Method. This descriptive study examined the relationship between cognitive skills and writing quality among students enrolled in an Adult Basic Education (ABE) program compared to undergraduate university students in the Southeastern United States. A hierarchical regression analysis was used to explore cognitive predictors of writing quality in these students. Participating students (N=49) provided two writing samples (i.e. narrative and expository) from the Test of Written Language and the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test-III. Each passage was scored using holistic quality rating scales from the standardized tests. Students were also assessed using standardized measures of oral language, working memory, transcription, and an experimental measure of discourse knowledge. Results. Results indicated that a significant amount of variance was explained by the cognitive and mechanics predictors included in our model. Furthermore, measures of phonological awareness, spelling, and handwriting accounted for unique variance in writing quality in both students in the ABE program and undergraduate students. Conclusions. Results from this study suggested that there were important cognitive and mechanical skills related to writing quality in adults. These results were consistent with other studies of predictors in children and predictors of other literacy outcomes in students in ABE programs.
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): February 28, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Kelly Whalon, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Laura Steacy, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Alysia Roehrig, University Representative; John Myers, Committee Member; Donald Compton, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Reading
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Smith_fsu_0071E_17100.pdf
TITLE: The Interconnectivity of Bath Architecture and Culture in Central Italy
AUTHOR: Smith, Allison Elizabeth,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): De Giorgi, Andrea U.
MEMBER (university representative): Palmer, James Allen
MEMBER (committee member): Pfaff, Christopher A.
MEMBER (committee member): Pullen, Daniel J., 1954-
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Classics
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (963 pages)
ABSTRACT: Ancient Roman bath complexes, both public and private, have been the source of curiosity for centuries. Scholars have studied the architectural forms of baths around the Mediterranean, although focus in Italy has been primarily reserved for baths located in Rome, Pompeii, and Herculaneum. Large and better-preserved baths at these sites have drawn the attention of the researcher, but hundreds of baths dot the landscape of Central Italy. This dissertation concentrates on traditionally glossed-over baths within the broader context of private and public bathing customs in Central Italy, creating a new, more thorough analysis of bath building practices in five chosen regions. Through this examination, this study proposes construction and design processes necessary to build, renovate, and maintain baths, as well as the interconnected nature of bath design. Moreover, this study adds to our knowledge of the people who were involved in the construction of these hygienic facilities – their roles and engagement in the building process. Our understanding of men and women involved in Roman construction projects, particularly baths, is limited, although not lost entirely. Using literary, archaeological, and epigraphic evidence of general construction in Central Italy, I present a chaîne opératoire for the bath building industry in the surveyed regions. As a case study, I dissect the processes of constructing the small bathhouse at Cosa (Tuscany), incorporating the proposed chaîne opératoire into this analysis. Such studies have been performed for larger baths on the peninsula, and the case study of Cosa's bath, which is part of the larger survey of baths in the surrounding regions, complements the current understanding of building processes through the lens of a smaller project. The second half of this dissertation involves a diachronic analysis of bath building in Central Italy. To perform such an analysis, I have compiled a catalogue of the archaeological remains of nearly 250 baths. This catalogue is not exhaustive, but the foundation of a regional study of bath construction and bathing habits that augments the burgeoning field of cross-cultural bath studies. Individual bathing rooms and the overall designs of these baths, when the archaeology permits such a scrutiny, are surveyed, compared, and classified. From this examination, typologies emerge, although these categories of baths are not as rigid as those proposed in past scholarship. From these typologies, theories concerning initial steps of architectural design come to light. Channels of diffusion of bath building knowledge are also presented, which highlight evolutionary progressions evidenced in the archaeological record. With these illuminated interconnections between designs and room types, interconnections between the people integral to bath building in these regions of Italy emerge.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Classics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 23, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Ancient Architecture, Central Italy, Roman Archaeology, Roman Baths
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Andrea De Giorgi, Professor Directing Dissertation; James A. Palmer, University Representative; Christopher Pfaff, Committee Member; Daniel Pullen, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Archaeology
SUBJECT: Civilization, Greco-Roman
SUBJECT: Architecture
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Snowden_fsu_0071E_16979.pdf
TITLE: Preschool Teacher Identity, Daily Work, and Job Satisfaction in a High-Quality Preschool Context: A Feminist Case Study
AUTHOR: Snowden, Emily A.,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Jones, Ithel
MEMBER (university representative): Dowell, Kristin L.
MEMBER (committee member): Khurshid, Ayesha
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, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (169 pages)
ABSTRACT: Despite the fact that high-quality preschool education is empirically acknowledged to facilitate short- and long-term personal, social, cognitive, and economic benefits, the professionals who teach preschool experience overwhelmingly poor working conditions that have historically been present as the role of childcare worker persisted throughout time. A contributor to these poor working conditions has been the gendering of the workforce—a reality that has often been justified with the perspective that women 'naturally' have caring instincts. However, those claims have been consistently contradicted and revealed that this feminization was historically centered on the commodification of breast milk—a concern that has since been mitigated by technological advancements. To address this issue in the field, this dissertation begins to provide contextualized descriptions of preschool teaching that are informed by the lived experiences of preschool teachers working in a high-quality preschool. Findings revealed that the work environment of the Lead Teachers is the immediate context that children are developing in and that in that context their role is to facilitate and engage the children in informed, intentional, and appropriate reciprocal interactions. This runs counter to the notion that high-quality preschool teaching and caregiving requires essentialized feminine qualities, instead highlighting how central social-emotional development is to early childhood education and care as well as how definitions and perceptions of quality need to be holistic and specific to the community context being served.
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): February 23, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Early Childhood, High-quality preschool, Preschool, Preschool Teacher, Quality improvement, Wet Nurse
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Ithel Jones, Professor Directing Dissertation; Kristin Dowell, University Representative; Ayesha Khurshid, Committee Member; Kathleen Clark, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Early childhood education
SUBJECT: Gender expression
SUBJECT: Gender identity
SUBJECT: Teachers--Training of
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Sogluizzo_fsu_0071N_17124.pdf
TITLE: Seasonality in Holobiont Photophysiology across Latitude
AUTHOR: Sogluizzo, Anthony S.,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Brooke, Sandra
MEMBER (committee member): Kranz, Sven Alexander
MEMBER (committee member): Baco-Taylor, Amy R. (Amy Rose)
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (61 pages)
ABSTRACT: Due to climate change driven sea surface temperature (SST) increase, tropical and sub-tropical corals have been experiencing temperature stress. This stress has manifested itself in multiple ways, one of which being the 'tropicalization' hypothesis. This is the idea that corals experiencing consistently high SST can expand their ranges into new environments where their temperature thresholds are met. This study attempts to explain how corals and their symbionts in the Florida Keys might adapt to the pressures of northward expansion. To do this, the photophysiological characteristics of the symbiont community harbored by the corals was assessed. Corals from the Florida Keys, Clearwater, and St. Marks were analyzed to determine the capabilities of symbiont photosystems in each region. Additionally, sub-tropical environments experience more pronounced seasonal temperature variation. Because corals are very susceptible to heat and cold, photophysiological analyses in summer and winter were performed. The photophysiological analysis provided context on how coral symbionts adapt to sub-tropical pressures and how capable Florida Keys' corals would be to northward expansion. This study found that corals in the Florida Keys had 41% more relative electron transport, 40% more light saturation capacity, and double the light dissipation potential than St. Marks. Corals in St. Marks and Clearwater showed photophysiological metrics generally indicating acclimation to lower light intensities. Surprisingly, St. Marks had a higher average light saturation threshold (Ek), maximum non-photochemical quenching (NPQmax), maximum relative electron transport rate rETRmax, and NPQ at Ek compared to Clearwater, although only NPQ[Ek] was statistically significant. This discrepancy supports a new hypothesis that there might be an environmental aspect to Clearwater that is affecting photophysiology. Seasonally there was little variation within all sites. During the summer light capture efficiency (α) was lower than winter, indicating light adaptation to elevated irradiance. With the poleward movement of tropical species, it is important to ascertain the coping strategies necessary to allow tropical corals to maintain holobiont metabolism under different environmental regimes.
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): April 6, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Coral, Photophysiology, Symbiodiniaceae, Tropicalization
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Sandra Brooke, Professor Directing Thesis; Sven Kranz, Committee Member; Amy Baco-Taylor, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Marine biology
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Sorenson_fsu_0071E_17227.pdf
TITLE: The Prevalence of Impostor Phenomenon among Music Student Teachers: A Mixed Methods Approach
AUTHOR: Sorenson, Rachel,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Springer, D. Gregory (Douglas Gregory) (Douglas Gregory)
MEMBER (university representative): Shields, Sara Scott
MEMBER (committee member): Kelly, Steven N.
MEMBER (committee member): Dunnigan, Patrick, 1957-
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (133 pages)
ABSTRACT: The Impostor Phenomenon (IP) is a psychological construct that causes high-achieving individuals to doubt their competence, intelligence, and sense of belonging. IP has only recently been examined among people in the music education community. The purpose of the current study was to examine the prevalence of IP among music student teachers. Through a mixed methods (sequential-explanatory) design, I surveyed music student teachers (N = 173) from across the U.S. to determine the extent to which they experienced IP. I then conducted a follow-up focus group with six participants to gain an in-depth understanding of their personal IP experiences as student teachers. Results indicated that IP is prevalent among music student teachers, with the majority experiencing it frequently or intensely. Findings from the focus group discussion confirmed many of the results from the survey portion and provided context for IP among music student teachers. Implications for music teacher education are discussed.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 20, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): D. Gregory Springer, Professor Directing Dissertation; Sara Scott Shields, University Representative; Steven N. Kelly, Committee Member; Patrick Dunnigan, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Music--Instruction and study
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Sprague_fsu_0071N_17224.pdf
TITLE: Defining and Measuring Mathematical Reasoning
AUTHOR: Sprague, Lauren N.,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Braithwaite, David William
MEMBER (committee member): Wagner, Richard K.
MEMBER (committee member): Ganley, Colleen M.
MEMBER (committee member): Charness, Neil
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Psychology
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (66 pages)
ABSTRACT: There is a large body of research on the numerical abilities underlying math achievement, but less is known about mathematical reasoning and its relationship to other math abilities. The present study is the first step of a project with the following goals: 1) Developing a measure of mathematical reasoning, and 2) Assessing the relations between mathematical reasoning and other aspects of math ability. In this study, 74 undergraduates completed a novel Geometry and Number Theory Proof Construction Task designed to measure mathematical reasoning, followed by an algebraic equation solving task and a survey about previous math experience. Cronbach's (1951) alpha was calculated to assess the internal consistency of the measure, and item-level statistics were used to identify some of its weaknesses. Confirmatory Factor Analysis was used to compare the fits of a one factor model and a two-factor model to these data. A hierarchical regression analysis and the first step of a mediation analysis were conducted to evaluate the relations between mathematical reasoning, algebra, and formal math experience. Some evidence was found that the Proof Completion Task measured a single latent Mathematical Reasoning construct. Results provided evidence that Geometry Proof Completion accounts for variance in Algebraic Equation Solving not already explained by Formal Math Experience, suggesting that the type of reasoning used to complete geometry proofs may also generalize to other areas of mathematics.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the Department of Psychology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 4, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): geometry proof, mathematical reasoning
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): David W. Braithwaite, Professor Directing Thesis; Richard K. Wagner, Committee Member; Colleen M. Ganley, Committee Member; Neil H. Charness, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Psychology
SUBJECT: Education
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Stanisauskis_fsu_0071E_16951.pdf
TITLE: Fractional Mechanics and Fractal Structure of Polymers
AUTHOR: Stanisauskis, Eugenia,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Oates, William
MEMBER (university representative): Sinha, Debajyoti
MEMBER (committee member): Hanson, Kenneth G.
MEMBER (committee member): Kennemur, Justin Glenn
MEMBER (committee member): Shanbhag, Sachin
MEMBER (committee member): Zeng, Changchun (Chad)
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
CORPORATE NAME: Program in Materials Science and Engineering
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (139 pages)
ABSTRACT: One important area in materials science and engineering is the relationship between spatial and temporal scales and its influence on constitutive properties. Fractal functions can be useful in studying materials where self-similarity across scales, often seen in nature, also influence engineered materials. Examples of fractals commonly found in nature include clouds, snowflakes, broccoli, arteries, and coastlines. All these objects exhibit self-similar structures over a finite scale range. Fractals have been found to better describe many natural phenomena relative to more conventional Euclidean geometry. Further, it is also known that fractional derivatives are better equipped to quantify dynamics and mechanics of fractal structures. The use of fractal functions along with the application of fractal or fractional operators can be useful when modeling complex phenomena such as viscoelasticity. Incorporating fractional order calculus into models of fractal materials can more accurately describe the complex phenomena of these materials and allow for the advancement of applications in various fields of study. We will demonstrate how these relations apply to dielectric elastomers (VHB 4949 and VHB 4905) and auxetic (negative Poisson ratio) foams. We find that the fractional order of viscoelasticity is important in obtaining accurate prediction of rate dependent deformation in uncalibrated regimes. We will demonstrate its effectiveness by comparing the models to experimental data and quantifying parameter uncertainty using Bayesian methods.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Program in Materials Science and Engineering in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 3, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Auxetic Foam, Dielectric Elastomer, Fractals, Fractional Order , Photopolymer, Viscoelasticity
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): William Oates, Professor Directing Dissertation; Debajyothi Sinha, University Representative; Kenneth Hanson, Committee Member; Justin Kennemur, Committee Member; Sachin Shanbhag, Committee Member; Changchun Zeng, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Materials science
SUBJECT: Engineering
SUBJECT: Plastics
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Stevens_fsu_0071N_16975.pdf
TITLE: Assisting African American Parents in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Content Analysis
AUTHOR: Stevens, Deborah,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Standley, Jayne M.
MEMBER (committee member): Gooding, Lori F. (Lori Fogus)
MEMBER (committee member): Gregory, Sarah Dianne
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (47 pages)
ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to conduct a content analysis of nine research articles related to the needs of African American parents/caregivers of preterm infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The primary topics explored in this study were (a) parental needs, (b) African American stressors and premature risk factors, (c) racial disparities in medical care, and (d) cultural demographics. Additional topics investigated were what parents/caregivers of preterm infants need and want from medical professionals as well as high prematurity rates in African American women. A content analysis was done for research from 2012-2022 across 5 scholarly U.S.-based research journals. Results showed few articles that deal with culturally specific information about family-based care in the NICU. Included articles summarized that parental needs in the NICU consist of improved communication, addressing external stressors, parent education and support, and cultural sensitivity. More research is needed in order to fully understand the needs of African American parents in the neonatal intensive care unit.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 4, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): African Americans, Music Therapy, NICU, Parental Needs, Preterm Birth
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Jayne M. Standley, Professor Directing Thesis; Lori Gooding, Committee Member; Sarah Diane Gregory, Committee Member.
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Stewart_fsu_0071E_17022.pdf
TITLE: Clinical Applications of Audio Effects in Music Therapy and Related Fields: A Scoping Review
AUTHOR: Stewart, Robert Allen,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Gooding, Lori F. (Lori Fogus)
MEMBER (university representative): Porter, Marcía
MEMBER (committee member): Standley, Jayne M.
MEMBER (committee member): Geringer, John M.
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (77 pages)
ABSTRACT: Advancements in digital audio recording technology have allowed many people to engage in music creation for personal recreation. A longstanding trend in music production has been to incorporate audio effects into the creation process. Many researchers, including music therapists, have begun to explore the potential benefits of using music with audio effects applied. A scoping review was conducted to synthesize the research that has been conducted in this area. A total of 54 articles were identified through the established search protocols of this research. Among them, a multitude of audio effects were used to achieve frequently significant results within the treatment of hearing disorders, developmental disorders, and many other kinds of applications. Effects also provide an additional dimension of musical expression that is largely accessible to persons with physical or cognitive limitations.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 21, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Audio Effects, Digital Audio Recording, Effects Processing, Electronic Music Technology, Music Therapy, Scoping Review
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Lori Gooding, Professor Directing Dissertation; Marcía Porter, University Representative; Jayne Standley, Committee Member; John Geringer, Committee Member.
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Su_fsu_0071E_17061.pdf
TITLE: Towards Successful Intercultural Relationships: The Initial Development and Validation of a Relational Cultural Intelligence Scale
AUTHOR: Su, Yile,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Ledermann, Thomas
MEMBER (university representative): McNulty, James
MEMBER (committee member): Kimmes, Jonathan G. (Jonathan Gene)
MEMBER (committee member): Cui, Ming, 1971-
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Health and Human Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Human Development and Family Science
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (82 pages)
ABSTRACT: In response to the rising public interest in understanding intercultural couples' relational experiences, particularly how couples respond to their differences in culture, I propose a new construct—relational cultural intelligence (RCI)—to describe an individual's ability to learn and apply cultural knowledge about oneself and their partner in a relationship. In this dissertation, I define the construct of RCI and describe the development of a preliminary RCI scale. I conceptualize RCI as a type of social intelligence, and it entails three essential intellectual dimensions—awareness, skills, and knowledge. I surveyed 186 individuals who self-identified in a current intercultural romantic relationship. The findings of this study provided evidence for the validity and reliability of a three-factor scale with a total of 12 items. Findings also showed that RCI was related to important aspects of relational experiences such as relational stress, dyadic coping, commitment, and relationship satisfaction. Possible implications and future directions of RCI are discussed.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Human Development and Family Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 11, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): cross-cultural interaction, cultural intelligence, intimate relationships, social intelligence
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Thomas Ledermann, Professor Directing Dissertation; James K. McNulty, University Representative; Jonathan G. Kimmes, Committee Member; Ming Cui, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Sociology--Research
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Sullenberger_fsu_0071E_17157.pdf
TITLE: The Role of the Parasubiculum in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
AUTHOR: Sullenberger, Thomas,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Kumar, Sanjay S.
MEMBER (university representative): Chase, P. Bryant
MEMBER (committee member): Trombley, Paul Q.
MEMBER (committee member): Pinto, Jose R. (Jose Renato)
MEMBER (committee member): Hyson, Richard Lee
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Medicine
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Biomedical Sciences
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (90 pages)
ABSTRACT: Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the commonest of adult epilepsies, often refractory to antiepileptic medications, whose prevention and treatment rely on understanding basic pathophysiological mechanisms in interlinked structures of the temporal lobe. The medial entorhinal area (MEA) is affected in TLE but mechanisms underlying hyperexcitability of MEA neurons require further elucidation. Previous studies have examined the role of the presubiculum (PrS) in mediating MEA pathophysiology but not the juxtaposed parasubiculum (Par). In this thesis, I report on an electrophysiological assessment of the cells and circuits of the Par, their excitability under normal and epileptic conditions, and alterations in functional connectivity with neighboring PrS and MEA using the rat pilocarpine model of TLE. I show that Par, unlike the cell heterogeneous PrS, has a single dominant neuronal population whose excitability under epileptic conditions is altered by changes in both intrinsic properties and synaptic drive. These neurons experience significant reductions in synaptic inhibition and perish under chronic epileptic conditions. Connectivity between brain regions was deduced through changes in excitatory and inhibitory synaptic drive to neurons recorded in one region upon focal application of glutamate followed by NBQX to neurons in another using a microfluidic technique called CESOP and TLE-related circuit reorganization was assessed using data from normal and epileptic animals. The region-specific changes in Par and neighboring PrS and MEA together with their unexpected interactions are of significance in identifying ictogenic cells and circuits within the parahippocampal region and in unraveling pathophysiological mechanisms underlying TLE.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Biomedical Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): March 29, 2022.
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Sanjay Kumar, Professor Directing Dissertation; P. Bryant Chase, University Representative; Paul Trombley, Committee Member; Jose Pinto, Committee Member; Richard Hyson, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Neurosciences
SUBJECT: Neurosciences
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Sun_fsu_0071E_16988.pdf
TITLE: The Development of Cycles of 24 Preludes by Russian Composers with Special Attention to Shostakovich's 24 Preludes, Op. 34
AUTHOR: Sun, Hui,
MEMBER (professor directing treatise): Gainsford, Read
MEMBER (university representative): Brewer, Charles E. (Charles Everett)
MEMBER (committee member): Dumlavwalla, Diana Teresa
MEMBER (committee member): Quinn, Iain, 1973-
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
CORPORATE NAME: College of Music
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (92 pages)
ABSTRACT: The purpose of this treatise is to introduce and discuss the development of cycles of twenty-four preludes by seven Russian composers. Shostakovich's prelude cycle receives a thorough analysis, which provides clear evidence for the advancement of the prelude genre in Russia.The treatise opens with the historical development of the prelude since the fifteenth century, through the Baroque, and Classical periods, followed by its expansion during the Romantic and Impressionist periods. The discussion concentrates on the evolution of the prelude from its original capacity as an introduction into an independent genre. The treatise explores Western influences on Russian music, particularly the spread of Romanticism since Chopin, in conjunction with historical, political, and cultural background information. This explanation culminates with the birth of the Russian piano school and the significance of the prelude genre to Russian composers. The social and historical context of the piano prelude cycle's development in Russia is established by briefly reviewing six cycles in chronological order, from Felix Blumenfeld's 24 Preludes, Op. 17 in 1892 to Lera Auerbach's 24 Preludes, Op. 41 in 1998. The other sets discussed are by Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Kabalevsky, and Kapustin. By juxtaposing the major musical characteristics of each set, the evolution of the prelude in a Russian context is evinced. The treatise also provides a theoretical analysis of Shostakovich's 24 Preludes, Op. 34, composed in 1932-1933. The analysis focuses on the technical aspects of form, modality, tonality, harmony, melody, motive, meter and rhythm, style, compositional technique, register, and texture, as well as the social aspects of Shostakovich's life within a national and personal context. The nexus of these two points of analysis is an examination of Russian ethnic elements within the set of twenty-four preludes, including the influence of Russian folk songs. This treatise confirms that the traditional aspects of preludes are still present in the modern day. Additionally, the similarity of musical styles and characteristics among these Russian composers seems to stem from the fact that they were either inspired by the same person or composed their music contemporarily. After the Russian Revolution and the subsequent political changes, their compositional traits are varied and more diverse.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Treatise submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Music.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 6, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Prelude, Shostakovich
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Read Gainsford, Professor Directing Treatise; Charles E. Brewer, University Representative; Diana Dumlavwalla, Committee Member; Iain Quinn, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Music
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Taondeyande_fsu_0071N_17275.pdf
TITLE: Effect of Balconies on Surface Pressure Distribution on a Mid-Rise Building
AUTHOR: Taondeyande, Fabrice,
MEMBER (professor directing thesis): Jung, Sungmoon
MEMBER (committee member): Zhang, Qian
MEMBER (committee member): Spainhour, Lisa
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (44 pages)
ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the surface pressure distribution on a 15-story mid-rise building model. The experiment was performed on a building with/without balconies; the data on the building without balconies being the reference pressure distribution for understanding the balconies effect on the surface pressure distribution. The experiment was simulated in an urban area setting (exposure B terrain) where the ABL height was estimated to be 0.73-m. The testing angles considered for the experiments were 0o, 45o, and 90o for a total of three angles. A scaling factor of 1/500 was considered for the testing to limit the blockage ratio to 3.23%. 15 pressure taps were predefined on the building specimen to observe the surface distribution. Of those 15 pressure taps, 3 were located on the roof, 4 on a side wall, and 8 on the front walls or 0o windward flow. The footprint section of the building specimen was (120X60) mm2 with a height of 100 mm. The wind tunnel test was performed using a Scannivalve Corp. ZOC 22B/32Px pressure scanner and a pressure sensitive paint from ISSI. The pressure sensitive paint (PSP) provides a 5% accuracy compared to the pressure scanner and is used as validation of the pressure scanner wind tunnel testing. For this experiment, a Binary UniCoat and Single UniCoat paint were used to estimate the wind pressure distribution. The experiment was conducted in the AME (Aero-propulsion, Mechanics, and Energy) wind tunnel of the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering which has a cross sectional dimension of (30 X 30) in2 and a testing section of 5-ft. The approach used to estimate the atmospheric boundary layer dimension and characteristics was made using the Irwin approach. The findings of the experiment concludes that the balconies influenced the surface pressure distribution on the building.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Thesis submitted to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science.
NOTE (Date of Defense): April 5, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): balconies, exposure B, mid-rise building, pressure scanner, pressure sensitive paint, wind tunnel
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Sungmoon Jung, Professor Directing Thesis; Qian Zhang, Committee Member; Lisa Spainhour, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Engineering
DEGREE: Masters
FILENAME: Thames_fsu_0071E_16941.pdf
TITLE: Empire, Race, and Agency in the Work of José Campeche, Artist and Subject in Late Spanish Colonial Puerto Rico (1751-1809)
AUTHOR: Thames, Emily Kathleen,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Niell, Paul B., 1976-
MEMBER (university representative): Munro, Martin
MEMBER (committee member): Leitch, Stephanie
MEMBER (committee member): Carrasco, Michael
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Fine Arts
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Art History
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (377 pages)
ABSTRACT: This dissertation examines José Campeche (1751-1809), a prolific artist of African descent who was born and lived his entire life in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Campeche created hundreds of works over the course of his career, as he participated in drafting projects administered by the Spanish colonial government, designed and constructed catafalques for state funeral ceremonies, created religious paintings of saints and Marian imagery for churches and for private devotion, painted the official royal portraits for coronation ceremonies, and executed portraits for the highest-ranking members of San Juan society, including governors, their wives, military officers, bishops, and members of the criollo elite. Campeche's illustrious career coincided with an era of cultural transformation in Puerto Rico, when large-scale architectural projects commenced in San Juan to augment the city's defenses and to renovate and reorganize urban spaces in the aftermath of the Seven Years War, and the population of the island increased exponentially through the end of the eighteenth and into the nineteenth centuries. Though Campeche lived and worked during a time of great social, political, and religious change in Puerto Rico and the Spanish Empire, the impact of these transformations and Campeche's role as a social and artistic agent within them has yet to be extensively addressed in relation to his body of work. Most studies that exist on Campeche pursue questions about the artist's biography and training, and attempt to classify his works, establish dates and provenance, and investigate source material with little examination of the artist's lived condition as a colonial subject and its impact on his artistic production. This dissertation seeks to ameliorate the issues evident in the present state of the literature on Campeche and offers a different perspective on the artist's life, career, and artistic production. It endeavors to examine the intersections between the creation and use of Campeche's work, events and conditions specific to Puerto Rico during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the numerous changes taking place concurrently across the Spanish Empire under the Bourbon regime. This project considers Campeche as a complex historical subject of African descent embedded in a colonial system whose lived experiences and artistic production were shaped by and responded to both local and imperial forces and were further informed by the circulation of ideas, people, and things throughout the Caribbean and greater Atlantic World. As such, it argues that Campeche's work provides an important lens into the ways in which he negotiated the opportunities, social realities, and contradictions of his specific late Spanish colonial milieu and served as a simultaneous product and agent of cultural transformation in Puerto Rico.
NOTE (Submitted Note): A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Art History in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
NOTE (Date of Defense): February 7, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): Caribbean Art, Eighteenth Century, José Campeche, Latin American Art , Portraiture, Puerto Rico
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): Paul B. Niell, Professor Directing Dissertation; Martin Munro, University Representative; Stephanie Leitch, Committee Member; Michael Carrasco, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Art--History
SUBJECT: Caribbean Area
SUBJECT: Latin America
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Thomas_fsu_0071E_17071.pdf
TITLE: Novel Techniques for High Sensitivity NMR Spectroscopy
AUTHOR: Thomas, Jeremy Nathan,
MEMBER (professor co-directing dissertation): Brey, William W.
MEMBER (professor co-directing dissertation): Hill, S. (Stephen Olof)
MEMBER (university representative): Schurko, Robert W.
MEMBER (committee member): Chiorescu, Irinel
MEMBER (committee member): Reina, Laura
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Arts and Sciences
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Physics
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (142 pages)
ABSTRACT: An important objective in radiofrequency (RF) coil design for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is improving sensitivity. The low RF losses of thin-film high temperature superconducting (HTS) coils make them well suited to provide superior sensitivity in a variety of NMR experiments when compared to conventional coils. However, HTS resonators have yet to be widely implemented in commercial NMR probes and are only utilized when high-performance is required. In this dissertation, an examination of some of the technological barriers associated with the use of HTS materials for RF coils is presented, with a focus on providing a detailed look at these difficulties through the lens of an HTS probe build-out process. Thus, this work is centered around the development of a 1.5 mm multi-resonant all-HTS NMR probe optimized for 13C detection, which utilizes a recently introduced 13C resonator design engineered to significantly increase 13C detection sensitivity over previous state-of-the-art HTS probe designs. The probe is designed for operation at 14.1 T, has a sample volume of 35 microliters, and utilizes HTS resonators for 13C and 1H transmission and detection and the 2H lock.HTS NMR probes typically require multiple resonators to be located within a small volume near the sample. Coupling between the resonators shifts the resonances which affects both resonator design and post-production trimming. To increase the efficiency of the build-out process of HTS probes, a coupling model describing the interactions between the coils of the 1.5 mm HTS NMR probe was developed and tested. By measuring the magnetic coupling coefficients between individual coils, the general coupling matrix for six coupled resonators was solved to produce accurate predictions of the system frequencies. Results confirm that the assumption of purely magnetic coupling is sufficiently accurate to predict the required resonance adjustments for a set of HTS coils in a single pass. Pulsed spectroscopy of many nuclides requires strong excitation fields. However, the fields that thin-film HTS resonators can produce are limited in comparison to normal-metal coils. The presented assessment of the new 13C HTS resonators shows a rapid increase in RF dissipation with increased power. A developed power testing procedure predicts that the coils are able to handle sufficient current to produce an effective 90° pulse without film degradation. The performance results from preliminary RF and NMR testing of the 1.5 mm HTS NMR probe within a 14.1 T magnet are presented. To effectively implement the improved quality factor (Q-factor) of the new 13C resonators, the effect of adding a shorted transmission line stub to increase the bandwidth and reduce the rise/fall time of 13C irradiation pulses is demonstrated. The improved 13C coils facilitate a 330% increase in Q-factor and 33% increase in 13C sensitivity over a previous probe of similar design. The increase in 13C NMR sensitivity is made while simultaneously preserving a wide irradiation pulse bandwidth and avoiding distorted pulse shapes. The probe will be used for applications in metabolomics and natural products research. The last section of this dissertation explores future directions for HTS coil design and use, with a focus on accommodating the large currents required of NMR transmit coils. A racetrack resonator with particularly adjusted finger lengths is predicted to improve current uniformity across the resonator. Importantly, the viability of using receive-only HTS coils for small sample NMR probes is investigated. It is shown that when sufficient isolation via field orthogonality is achieved with precise angular rotation of the normal-metal transmit coil, the HTS pair has the potential to provide improved sensitivity despite an increase in loss produced by the transmit coil.
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): April 4, 2022.
NOTE (Keywords): High-Temperature Superconductors, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Radiofrequency Coils, Spectroscopy, Superconducting Devices
NOTE (Bibliography Note): Includes bibliographical references.
NOTE (Advisory Committee): William W. Brey, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Stephen Hill, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Robert Schurko, University Representative; Irinel Chiorescu, Committee Member; Laura Reina, Committee Member.
SUBJECT: Physics
SUBJECT: Biomedical engineering
DEGREE: Doctoral
FILENAME: Thomasee_fsu_0071E_16971.pdf
TITLE: The Clery Act: Challenges for 2-Year Postsecondary Institutions in Florida
AUTHOR: Thomasee, David,
MEMBER (professor directing dissertation): Herrington, Carolyn D.
MEMBER (university representative): Whalon, Kelly J.
MEMBER (committee member): Mokher, Christine G.
MEMBER (committee member): Perez-Felkner, Lara
CORPORATE NAME: Florida State University
CORPORATE NAME: College of Education
CORPORATE NAME: Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
PUBLICATION: Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 2022
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 online resource (105 pages)