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Title: Engaging Students in Ethical Considerations of the Scientific Process Using a Simulated Funding Panel.
Creator: Demers, Nora, Nelson, Katherine, Gunnels, Charles W., Bovard, Brian, Cassani, Mary Kay, Douglass, James, Everham, Edwin, Hartley, Anne, Herman, John, Mujtaba, Mustafa, Muller,...
Show moreDemers, Nora, Nelson, Katherine, Gunnels, Charles W., Bovard, Brian, Cassani, Mary Kay, Douglass, James, Everham, Edwin, Hartley, Anne, Herman, John, Mujtaba, Mustafa, Muller, Joanne, Nicolas, Antoine, Southard, Larry, Thomas, Serge, Buzasi, Derek
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Abstract / Description: All undergraduates majoring in a physical or natural science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) are required to take an interdisciplinary-science methods course entitled Scientific Process. This course is designed to help professionalize students by introducing them to the history, practice, philosophy, and ethics associated with being a working scientist (Meers, Demers and Savarese 2003). Most students take the course early in their junior year as the...
Show moreAll undergraduates majoring in a physical or natural science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) are required to take an interdisciplinary-science methods course entitled Scientific Process. This course is designed to help professionalize students by introducing them to the history, practice, philosophy, and ethics associated with being a working scientist (Meers, Demers and Savarese 2003). Most students take the course early in their junior year as the first class in a sequence of research courses that culminates in conducting and presenting independent research during their senior year.
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Date Issued: 2015-10-01
Identifier: fgcu_ir_000397
Format: Citation

Title: Contrasting the American College of Healthcare Executives' Code of Ethics with Undergraduate Health Administration Students' Values and Ethical Decision Choices.
Creator: Rubens, Arthur, Wimberley, Edward
Abstract / Description: Although administrative ethics are imbedded into the code of ethics of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), understanding the values and ethical decision-making practices of health administration students can help shape content and curriculum for health administration programs in the future. The study surveyed a sample of undergraduate health administration students to examine their sense students completed the Comparative Emphasis Scale, which measured the student's sense of...
Show moreAlthough administrative ethics are imbedded into the code of ethics of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), understanding the values and ethical decision-making practices of health administration students can help shape content and curriculum for health administration programs in the future. The study surveyed a sample of undergraduate health administration students to examine their sense students completed the Comparative Emphasis Scale, which measured the student's sense of honesty, fairness, and integrity, and 10 short cases of administrative ethical issues derived from the ACHE Code of Ethics. The findings from the study indicated that the health administrative students had moderate to high mean scores on the ethical scales measuring achievement (15.86), concern for others (17.82), fairness (17.67), and honesty (18.21). The students' overall mean score for the 10 ethical cases was 3.51 on a 5-point scale, with 1 indicating a low likelihood and 5 a high likelihood. Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient showed a minimum relationship between results of the Comparative Emphasis Scale and responses to ethical decision-making cases, and it showed no significant relationship between race, gender, and class (freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior) of the students. The results of the study have indicated that the sampled undergraduate health administration students respond at a moderate to high ethical level to this standardized scale and cases involving ACHE administrative ethical issues. Future research should explore the relationship between select variables concerning employment history, industry, position, and demographics characteristics in people's ethical choices.
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Date Issued: 2004-01-01
Identifier: fgcu_ir_001082
Format: Citation

Title: Management support organizations and university partnership in nonprofit education, training and consultation.
Creator: Rubens, Arthur, Wimberley, Edward
Abstract / Description: Over the last decade there has been a tremendous growth in the nonprofit sector. Local community centers and foundations are developing Leadership Institutes to educate and assist the burgeoning nonprofit sectors needs for education and consultation. Universities and colleges are also responding to the call for nonprofit education. Since 1990 there has been a 300% growth in universities offering concentrations in nonprofit education. This paper documents how Florida Gulf Coast University, the...
Show moreOver the last decade there has been a tremendous growth in the nonprofit sector. Local community centers and foundations are developing Leadership Institutes to educate and assist the burgeoning nonprofit sectors needs for education and consultation. Universities and colleges are also responding to the call for nonprofit education. Since 1990 there has been a 300% growth in universities offering concentrations in nonprofit education. This paper documents how Florida Gulf Coast University, the nation’s newest university, partnered with the Center for Leadership of the local community foundation to conduct a needs assessment of demand for graduate education, training, and consultation in the area of nonprofit management. The partnership began with three focus groups of key administrative personnel from local nonprofit organizations. The survey documented a preponderance of interest in marketing, fund raising and strategic planning across all agencies, regardless of size. Smaller agencies, with budgets of less than $500,000 (52% of the sample) tended to be primarily interested in education, training, and consultation activities involving fund raising and marketing. Comparatively larger agencies tended to be interested in assistance with computer technology, legal and ethical issues, and cooperation among nonprofit organizations. The survey also indicated that that was a high interest among agency staff and board members for a nonprofit management track within an academic degree program or a graduate certificate program in nonprofit management.
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Date Issued: 2001-01-01
Identifier: fgcu_ir_001083
Format: Citation

Title: Influence of Environmental Variables on Gambierdiscus spp. (Dinophyceae) Growth and Distribution.
Creator: Xu, Yixiao, Richlen, Mindy L., Liefer, Justin D., Robertson, Alison, Kulis, David, Smith, Tyler B., Parsons, Michael L., Anderson, Donald M., Ferse, Sebastian C. A.
Abstract / Description: Benthic dinoflagellates in the genus Gambierdiscus produce the ciguatoxin precursors responsible for the occurrence of ciguatera toxicity. The prevalence of ciguatera toxins in fish has been linked to the presence and distribution of toxin-producing species in coral reef ecosystems, which is largely determined by the presence of suitable benthic habitat and environmental conditions favorable for growth. Here using single factor experiments, we examined the effects of salinity, irradiance, and...
Show moreBenthic dinoflagellates in the genus Gambierdiscus produce the ciguatoxin precursors responsible for the occurrence of ciguatera toxicity. The prevalence of ciguatera toxins in fish has been linked to the presence and distribution of toxin-producing species in coral reef ecosystems, which is largely determined by the presence of suitable benthic habitat and environmental conditions favorable for growth. Here using single factor experiments, we examined the effects of salinity, irradiance, and temperature on growth of 17 strains of Gambierdiscus representing eight species/phylotypes (G. belizeanus, G. caribaeus, G. carolinianus, G. carpenteri, G. pacificus, G. silvae, Gambierdiscus sp. type 4–5), most of which were established from either Marakei Island, Republic of Kiribati, or St. Thomas, United States Virgin Island (USVI). Comparable to prior studies, growth rates fell within the range of 0–0.48 divisions day-1. In the salinity and temperature studies, Gambierdiscus responded in a near Gaussian, non-linear manner typical for such studies, with optimal and suboptimal growth occurring in the range of salinities of 25 and 45 and 21.0 and 32.5°C. In the irradiance experiment, no mortality was observed; however, growth rates at 55μmol photons · m-2 · s-1 were lower than those at 110–400μmol photons · m-2 · s-1. At the extremes of the environmental conditions tested, growth rates were highly variable, evidenced by large coefficients of variability. However, significant differences in intraspecific growth rates were typically found only at optimal or near-optimal growth conditions. Polynomial regression analyses showed that maximum growth occurred at salinity and temperature levels of 30.1–38.5 and 23.8–29.2°C, respectively. Gambierdiscus growth patterns varied among species, and within individual species: G. belizeanus, G. caribaeus, G. carpenteri, and G. pacificus generally exhibited a wider range of tolerance to environmental conditions, which may explain their broad geographic distribution. In contrast, G. silvae and Gambierdiscus sp. types 4–5 all displayed a comparatively narrow range of tolerance to temperature, salinity, and irradiance.
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Date Issued: 2016-04-13
Identifier: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153197, fcu_ir_000090, http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153197
Format: Citation

Title: From Shell Midden to Midden-Mound: The Geoarchaeology of Mound Key, an Anthropogenic Island in Southwest Florida, USA.
Creator: Thompson, Victor D., Marquardt, William H., Cherkinsky, Alexander, Roberts Thompson, Amanda D., Walker, Karen J., Newsom, Lee A., Savarese, Michael, Hardy, Karen
Abstract / Description: Mound Key was once the capital of the Calusa Kingdom, a large Pre-Hispanic polity that controlled much of southern Florida. Mound Key, like other archaeological sites along the southwest Gulf Coast, is a large expanse of shell and other anthropogenic sediments. The challenges that these sites pose are largely due to the size and areal extent of the deposits, some of which begin up to a meter below and exceed nine meters above modern sea levels. Additionally, the complex depositional sequences...
Show moreMound Key was once the capital of the Calusa Kingdom, a large Pre-Hispanic polity that controlled much of southern Florida. Mound Key, like other archaeological sites along the southwest Gulf Coast, is a large expanse of shell and other anthropogenic sediments. The challenges that these sites pose are largely due to the size and areal extent of the deposits, some of which begin up to a meter below and exceed nine meters above modern sea levels. Additionally, the complex depositional sequences at these sites present difficulties in deter- mining their chronology. Here, we examine the development of Mound Key as an anthropo- genic island through systematic coring of the deposits, excavations, and intensive radiocarbon dating. The resulting data, which include the reversals of radiocarbon dates from cores and dates from mound-top features, lend insight into the temporality of site for- mation. We use these insights to discuss the nature and scale of human activities that worked to form this large island in the context of its dynamic, environmental setting. We present the case that deposits within Mound Key’s central area accumulated through com- plex processes that represent a diversity of human action including midden accumulation and the redeposition of older sediments as mound fill.
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Date Issued: 2016-04-28
Identifier: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154611, fgcu_ir_000089, http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0154611
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Title: Dietary plasticity in the bivalve Astarte moerchi revealed by a multimarker study in two Arctic fjords.
Creator: De Cesare, S, Meziane, T, Chauvaud, L, Richard, Joelle, Sejr, MK, Thébault, J, Winkler, G, Olivier, F
Abstract / Description: Arctic coastal ecosystems are likely to be strongly affected by predicted environmen- tal changes such as sea-ice decline and increase in freshwater input and turbidity. These changes are expected to impact primary production dynamics and consequently benthic consumers. The trophic relationship between primary producers and benthic primary consumers were compared in 2 Arctic fjords with different seasonal ice-cover: Young Sound (NE Greenland, a high-Arctic fjord) and Kongsfjorden (Svalbard...
Show moreArctic coastal ecosystems are likely to be strongly affected by predicted environmen- tal changes such as sea-ice decline and increase in freshwater input and turbidity. These changes are expected to impact primary production dynamics and consequently benthic consumers. The trophic relationship between primary producers and benthic primary consumers were compared in 2 Arctic fjords with different seasonal ice-cover: Young Sound (NE Greenland, a high-Arctic fjord) and Kongsfjorden (Svalbard Archipelago, a sub-Arctic fjord). For comparison, we selected the filter-feeding bivalve Astarte moerchi (belonging to the complex A. borealis), which has a broad geographical distribution in the Arctic. The bivalve digestive glands and food sources were characterized with fatty acids (FAs), bulk stable isotopes, and compound-specific stable isotopes of individual FAs. Our results suggest that diatoms of pelagic and/or benthic origin are the main contributors to the A. moerchi diet in Young Sound and make up a less important fraction of the diet in the Kongsfjorden population. A contribution by sympagic diatoms is clearly excluded in the sub-Arctic fjord and needs to be further assessed in the Arctic fjord. The A. moerchi diet in sub- Arctic Kongsfjorden is more diversified, varies with season, and has contributions from dinoflagel- lates and macroalgal detritus. These results, together with higher concentrations of total FAs in the Young Sound population, demonstrated and characterized the trophic plasticity of this bivalve species. Based on these results, we discuss potential effects of environmental factors (shifts in trophic resources, increase in turbidity) for A. moerchi populations in changing Arctic ecosystems.
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Date Issued: 2017-03-13
Identifier: 10.3354/meps12035, fgcu_ir_00079, http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v567/p157-172/
Format: Citation

Title: The campus ecosystem model.
Creator: Savarese, Michael, Tolley, Gregory, Everham, Edwin, McDonald, Michael
Abstract / Description: Interdisciplinary teaching, research experience, and active, collaborative strategies have all been identified as practices highly favorable to the learning process. By using the university campus as the focus for the study of the entire watershed within which it is situated, the Campus Ecosystem Model presents a context for incorporating these pedagogical elements into a useful framework for undergraduate science education.
Date Issued: 2002-03-01
Identifier: fgcu_ir_000970
Format: Citation

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