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    • Facklamia ignava sp. nov., Isolated from Human Clinical Specimens 

      Collins, Matthew D.; Lawson, Paul A.; Monasterio, Rafael; Falsen, Enevold; Sjoden, Berit; Facklam, Richard R. (1998-07)
      Two strains of a hitherto-undescribed gram-positive, catalase-negative coccus isolated from human sources were characterized by phenotypic and molecular taxonomic methods. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequencing studies ...

    • Facklamia languida sp. nov., Isolated from Human Clinical Specimens 

      Lawson, Paul A.; Collins, Matthew D.; Falsen, Enevold; Sjoden, Berit; Facklam, Richard R. (1999-04)
      Three strains of a gram-positive catalase-negative, facultatively anaerobic coccus-shaped organism originating from human clinical samples were characterized by phenotypic and molecular taxonomic methods. Sequencing of ...

    • Fact or Fiction? Children’s Preferences for Real Versus Make-Believe Stories 

      Jennifer L. Barnes; Emily Bernstein; Paul Bloom (Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2015-03-01)
      Some children and adults are more drawn to the imaginary than others. Here, we examine whether developmental differences also play a role in the degree to which individuals are drawn to make-believe stories over real ones ...

    • A Factor Analytic Study of the Adult Classroom Environment Scale 

      Michael Langenbach; Lola Aagaard (Adult Education Quarterly, 1990-06-01)
      This study explored the factor structure of Darkenwald and Valentine's Adult Classroom Environment Scale (ACES). The Student Ideal form of the ACES was administered to 449 adult students from a variety of educational ...

    • Factor Structure of the Criterion Task Set 

      Robert E. Schlegel; Kirby Gilliland; Betina Schlegel (Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1987-09-01)
      A large-scale experimental study was conducted involving the training and testing of 123 human subjects on the Criterion Task Set (Version 1.0). Testing was performed under baseline and stressor conditions. The performance ...

    • Faculty Productivity and Carnegie Institutional Characteristics within AEJMC Programs 

      Linda Morton; Fred K. Beard (Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, 2005-06-01)
      This article reports the results of a content analysis of faculty vitae from eighteen ACEJMC programs drawn using stratified random sampling by Carnegie Classification. The findings indicate that faculty members differ by ...

    • Family at the Heart of Chickasaw Language Reclamation 

      Chew, Kari A. B. (American Indian Quarterly, 2015)
      The Chickasaw Nation faces rapid and unprecedented decline of its language, Chikashshanompa'. As a result, community members are growing increasingly aware of the importance of the language to identity and culture, and ...

    • Family Business and Multiple Levels of Conflict 

      Michael Harvey; Rodney E. Evans (Family Business Review, 1994-12-01)
      Family businesses are fertile fields for conflict. The influence of the founding families on the basic tenets and culture of the company may be unparalleled in business. When attempts are made to modify the family business ...

    • Family Values, Social Capital and Contradictions of American Modernity 

      Philip Webb (Theory, Culture & Society, 2011-07-01)
      Contemporary American social and political discourses have integrated concerns about family values into the realm of debates about the associational life of social capital. In these discussions, theoretical and historical ...

    • Fast Simulation of Open Queueing Systems 

      Cortney S. Hunt; Bobbie L. Foote (SIMULATION, 1995-09-01)
      We describe a technique developed by the authors for fast simulation of open queueing networks. The technique takes advantage of the recursive nature of departure times of customers in various parts of the system. The event ...

    • Feasibility of Utilizing Ethnic Beauty Salons for Cervical Cancer Screening Education 

      Jongwon Lee; Mauricio Carvallo; Eunice Lee (Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2014-04-02)
      The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of using ethnic beauty salons to reach out to Vietnamese and Korean American women for cervical cancer screening education. Participants (N = 62) were conveniently ...

    • Feeding Collective Impact: How to Foster Cross-Sector Partnerships that Build Innovative Solutions for Social Change 

      Parris, Denise Linda; Broussard, Karen (2020-11-13)
      As Dave Krepcho, CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank (SHFB) of Central Florida, stared at the numbers, he realized they were not going to food bank their way out of the meal gap—the representative number of the meals missing ...

    • The Fertility Related Behavior of Mexican American Adolescents 

      Constance Lindemann; Wilbur Scott (The Journal of Early Adolescence, 1982-02-01)
      Data from a clinic sample of pregnant adolescents are analyzed for differences in fertility related variables between Mexican American and non-Mexican. The independent variables are birthplace, ethnicity, and exposure to ...

    • Filtration and Breakdown of Clay Clusters during Resin Transfer Molding of Nanoclay/Glass/Epoxy Composites 

      Levent Aktas; Sudha Dharmavaram; Youssef K. Hamidi; M. Cengiz Altan (Journal of Composite Materials, 2008-11-01)
      Dispersion of nanoclay clusters during resin transfer molding of nanoclay/glass/epoxy disks is investigated. In addition to a center-gated disk containing only 14% glass fibers, three nanocomposite disks are fabricated ...

    • Filtration of Nanoclay Clusters During Resin Transfer Molding of Clay Glass Epoxy Disks 

      Aktas, L.; Dharmavaram, S.; Hamidi, Y. K.; Altan, M. C. (2005)
      Inclusion of nanoclay in various polymer systems is being studied as a viable improvement method for thermo-mechanical properties for more than a decade. It has also been shown that addition of nanoclay into polymers ...

    • First Documented Pathologies in Tenontosaurus tilletti with Comments on Infection in Non-Avian Dinosaurs 

      Hunt, T.C.; Peterson, J.E.; Frederickson, J.A.; Cohen, J.E.; Berry, J.L. (2019-06-18)
      In 2001, a nearly complete sub-adult Tenontosaurus tilletti was collected from the Antlers Formation (Aptian-Albian) of southeastern Oklahoma. Beyond its exceptional preservation, computed tomography (CT) and physical ...

    • First Investigation of the Microbiology of the Deepest Layer of Ocean Crust 

      Olivia U. Mason; Tatsunori Nakagawa; Martin Rosner; Joy D. Van Nostrand; Jizhong Zhou; Akihiko Maruyama; Martin R. Fisk; Stephen J. Giovannoni (PLos One, 2010-11-05)
      The gabbroic layer comprises the majority of ocean crust. Opportunities to sample this expansive crustal environment are rare because of the technological demands of deep ocean drilling; thus, gabbroic microbial communities ...

    • Fist Fights, Guns, and the Art of Teaching English 

      Baines, Lawrence (1995-09)

    • The Florida Key: a Scale to Infer Learner Self-Concept 

      Unknown author (Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1973-12-01)

    • A Flow Induced Autoimmune Response and Accelerated Senescence of Red Blood Cells in Cardiovascular Devices 

      Buerck, James P.; Burke, Dustin K.; Schmidtke, David W.; Snyder, Trevor A.; Papavassiliou, Dimitrios; O'Rear, Edgar A. (2019-12-19)
      Red blood cells (RBCs) passing through heart pumps, prosthetic heart valves and other cardiovascular devices undergo early senescence attributed to non-physiologic forces. We hypothesized that mechanical trauma accelerates ...