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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"University of Florida"”.
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The role of professional school counselors as perceived by future school principals
A dissertation submitted to the graduate school of the University of Florida in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy
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Reviving Heritage in a Historic Gem City: Examining the Management of History at the Colonial Quarter in St. Augustine, Florida
<p>The Colonial Quarter is a living history venue of Spanish and British colonial heritage in St. Augustine, Florida. Since 1966, the site has housed interpretive structures and programming related to St. Augustine’s colonial history. Over time, management of the site has fallen under the purview …
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The use of animal activity data and milk components as indicators of clinical mastitis
… (R=0.47), respectively. Daily monitoring of animal activity and milk components can be used to detect mastitis prior to clinical onset. Data from 268 cases with clinical mastitis and respective controls (n=268) from Virginia Tech and the University of Florida dairy herds were examined. …
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The lived experience of discovery of purpose in student affairs among emerging professionals
Clegorne, Nicholas Anthony, B.M. University of Florida, 2002, M.M. University of Florida, 2004 Doctor of Philosophy Major: Educational Leadership and Research The Lived Experience of Discovery of Purpose in Student Affairs among Emerging Professionals Dissertation directed by Associate Professor …
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Algorithmic randomness on computable metric spaces and hyperspaces
… spaces with arbitrary measure (for examples of this type of generalization see Gács [14], Rojas and Hoyrup [15]. The aim of this generalization is to define algorithmic randomness on the hyperspace of non-empty compact subsets of a computable metric space, the study of which was first …
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A mixed-methods analysis of best practices for land-grant university mobile applications from a user experience design perspective
A content analysis of 30 mobile applications for the largest land-grant universities in the United States was conducted to examine the use of recognized best practices for mobile application development. A total of 49 variables were identified as best practices across five hierarchical categories …
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Sparse matrix-vector multiplication by specialization
Program specialization is the process of generating optimized programs based on available inputs. It is particularly applicable when some input data are used repeatedly while other input data vary. Specialization can be employed at compile-time as well as at run-time, depending on when the inputs …
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Time Resolved Spectroscopy in InAs and InSb based Narrow-Gap Semiconductors
… excellent tool to probe the relaxation dynamics of photoexcited carriers; where after the initial photoexcitation, the nonequilibrium population of electrons and holes relax by a series of scattering processes including carrier-carrier and carrier-phonon scattering. Probing carrier and spin …
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The early career of Thomas, Lord Howard, Earl of Surrey and third Duke of Norfolk, 1474-c.1525
Why another thesis on the third duke of Norfolk, and why, in particular, a partial one? It is true that two competent studies of the duke have been made in relatively recent times; the first an M.A. thesis submitted in the University of Nottingham in 1961 by F.R. Grace, and the second, a Ph.D. in …
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Routinization of Sustainable Innovation in Public Sector (A LEED Analysis)
Innovation can be defined as "The use of non-trivial change and improvement in a process, product or the system that is novel to the institution developing the change" (Slaughter1998). And once an innovation is constantly used by an organization on a regular basis, it leads to routinization. Rogers …
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Fluoromethyl ketone prodrugs: Potential new insecticides towards Anopheles gambiae
… to pyrethroid insecticides. With the goal of developing new human-safe, resistance-breaking insecticides we have explored several classes of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. In vitro assay studies demonstrate that tri- and difluoromethyl ketones can potentially inhibit An. gambiae AChE …
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Advancement of A 3D Computational Phantom and Its Age Scaling Methodologies For Retrospective Dose Reconstruction Studies
… for retrospective dose reconstruction studies of childhood cancer survivors (CCS) treated with 2D historic radiotherapy (RT). However, our phantom and its age scaling functions (ASF) must be updated so that it can be used in studies that include survivors treated with contemporary RT. We aimed …
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A comparison of three computational phantoms for calibration of a radiation portal monitor used for measurement of internal contamination.
The goal of this research was to investigate if portal monitors could measure internally deposited radioisotopes over a short count time (1 second) with a detection limit sufficient to measure 1/10 of an annual limit on intake (ALI) of specific radionuclides. The goal was to determine if portal …
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Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and the role of facilities planning in force protection
This report examines the current role of facilities planning in force protection. It concentrates on a specific planning technique, Defensible Space, also called Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), as a method that planners and facilities Crime Prevention Through Environmental …
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Custom residential housing construction : a case study.
This report is a synopsis of research conducted with Mickey Smith Professional Builders, Inc. (a successful custom home construction firm in Gainesville, Florida). The goal was to broaden my technical engineering knowledge and gain practical construction experience. The majority of time was spent …
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Influência do manejo mãe-cria na eficiência reprodutiva de primíparas de raças de corte
… dois anos consecutivos, foi utilizado na “University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Range Cattle Research and Education Center” um total de 112 vacas primíparas, cruzadas Brahman x Britânica e seus respectivos bezerros, distribuídos aleatoriamente em três …
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An American spectacle: college mascots and the performance of tradition
… Spectacle: College Mascots and the Performance of Tradition” seeks to understand how college football and its attendant events (termed here “An American Spectacle”) became a vehicle for cultural production by individuals and institutions in specifically raced, gendered, and classed ways. It asks …
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A new prompt gamma spectroscopy-based approach for range verification in proton therapy
… = J/k g), in a localized region close to the end of their range (called the Bragg Peak BP). The combination of the favorable depth-dose profile with advanced delivery techniques translates into a high dose conformality in the tumor, as well as into a superior sparing of normal tissue compared to …