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- Title
- The Florida East Coast Hotel System.
- Creator
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Florida East Coast Hotel System, Florida East Coast Railway, PALMM (Project)
- Abstract / Description
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Travel brochure featuring period photographs of hotels held by the East Coast Hotel System as well as activities available in the surrounding areas.
- Date Issued
- 1895
- Identifier
- AAB9286QF00009/02/200511/13/200613958BfamIa D0QF, FHP C UCF 2005-08-03, FCLA url 20060328xOCLC, 75956574, CF00001720, 2584437, ucf:19676
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001720.jpg
- Title
- Multi-Level Safety Performance Functions for High Speed Facilities.
- Creator
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Ahmed, Mohamed, Abdel-Aty, Mohamed, Radwan, Ahmed, Al-Deek, Haitham, Mackie, Kevin, Pande, Anurag, Uddin, Nizam, University of Central Florida
- Abstract / Description
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High speed facilities are considered the backbone of any successful transportation system; Interstates, freeways, and expressways carry the majority of daily trips on the transportation network. Although these types of roads are relatively considered the safest among other types of roads, they still experience many crashes, many of which are severe, which not only affect human lives but also can have tremendous economical and social impacts. These facts signify the necessity of enhancing the...
Show moreHigh speed facilities are considered the backbone of any successful transportation system; Interstates, freeways, and expressways carry the majority of daily trips on the transportation network. Although these types of roads are relatively considered the safest among other types of roads, they still experience many crashes, many of which are severe, which not only affect human lives but also can have tremendous economical and social impacts. These facts signify the necessity of enhancing the safety of these high speed facilities to ensure better and efficient operation. Safety problems could be assessed through several approaches that can help in mitigating the crash risk on long and short term basis. Therefore, the main focus of the research in this dissertation is to provide a framework of risk assessment to promote safety and enhance mobility on freeways and expressways. Multi-level Safety Performance Functions (SPFs) were developed at the aggregate level using historical crash data and the corresponding exposure and risk factors to identify and rank sites with promise (hot-spots). Additionally, SPFs were developed at the disaggregate level utilizing real-time weather data collected from meteorological stations located at the freeway section as well as traffic flow parameters collected from different detection systems such as Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI) and Remote Traffic Microwave Sensors (RTMS). These disaggregate SPFs can identify real-time risks due to turbulent traffic conditions and their interactions with other risk factors.In this study, two main datasets were obtained from two different regions. Those datasets comprise historical crash data, roadway geometrical characteristics, aggregate weather and traffic parameters as well as real-time weather and traffic data.At the aggregate level, Bayesian hierarchical models with spatial and random effects were compared to Poisson models to examine the safety effects of roadway geometrics on crash occurrence along freeway sections that feature mountainous terrain and adverse weather. At the disaggregate level; a main framework of a proactive safety management system using traffic data collected from AVI and RTMS, real-time weather and geometrical characteristics was provided. Different statistical techniques were implemented. These techniques ranged from classical frequentist classification approaches to explain the relationship between an event (crash) occurring at a given time and a set of risk factors in real time to other more advanced models. Bayesian statistics with updating approach to update beliefs about the behavior of the parameter with prior knowledge in order to achieve more reliable estimation was implemented. Also a relatively recent and promising Machine Learning technique (Stochastic Gradient Boosting) was utilized to calibrate several models utilizing different datasets collected from mixed detection systems as well as real-time meteorological stations. The results from this study suggest that both levels of analyses are important, the aggregate level helps in providing good understanding of different safety problems, and developing policies and countermeasures to reduce the number of crashes in total. At the disaggregate level, real-time safety functions help toward more proactive traffic management system that will not only enhance the performance of the high speed facilities and the whole traffic network but also provide safer mobility for people and goods. In general, the proposed multi-level analyses are useful in providing roadway authorities with detailed information on where countermeasures must be implemented and when resources should be devoted. The study also proves that traffic data collected from different detection systems could be a useful asset that should be utilized appropriately not only to alleviate traffic congestion but also to mitigate increased safety risks. The overall proposed framework can maximize the benefit of the existing archived data for freeway authorities as well as for road users.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2012
- Identifier
- CFE0004508, ucf:49274
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004508
- Title
- Harvesting the Seeds of Early American Human and Nonhuman Animal Relationships in William Bartram's Travels, The Travel Diary of Elizabeth House Trist, and Sarah Trimmer's Fabulous Histories.
- Creator
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Vives, Leslie, Logan, Lisa, Murphy, Patrick, Kamrath, Mark, University of Central Florida
- Abstract / Description
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This thesis uses ecofeminist and human-animal studies lenses to explore human animal and nonhuman animal relations in early America. Most ecocritical studies of American literature begin with nineteenth-century writers. This project, however, suggests that drawing on ecofeminist theories with a human-animal studies approach sheds light on eighteenth-century texts as well. Early American naturalist travel writing offers a site replete with human and nonhuman encounters. Specifically,...
Show moreThis thesis uses ecofeminist and human-animal studies lenses to explore human animal and nonhuman animal relations in early America. Most ecocritical studies of American literature begin with nineteenth-century writers. This project, however, suggests that drawing on ecofeminist theories with a human-animal studies approach sheds light on eighteenth-century texts as well. Early American naturalist travel writing offers a site replete with human and nonhuman encounters. Specifically, naturalist William Bartram's travel journal features interactions with animals in the southern colonial American frontier. Amateur naturalist Elizabeth House Trist's travel diary includes interactions with frontier and domestic animals. Sarah Trimmer's Fabulous Histories, a conduct manual that taught children acceptable behavior towards animals, provides insight about the social regulation of human and nonhuman relationships during the late eighteenth century, when Bartram and Trist wrote their texts. This thesis identifies and analyzes textual sites that blur the human subject/and animal object distinction and raise questions about the representation of animals as objects. This project focuses on the subtle discursive subversions of early Euroamerican naturalist science present in Bartram's Travels (1791) and the blurring of human/animal boundaries in Trist's Travel Diary (1783-84); Trimmer's Fabulous Histories (1794) further complicates the Euroamerican discourse of animals as curiosities. These texts form part of a larger but overlooked discourse in early British America that anticipated more well-known and nonhuman-centric texts in the burgeoning early nineteenth-century American animal rights movement. ?
Show less - Date Issued
- 2012
- Identifier
- CFE0004451, ucf:49329
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004451
- Title
- Good Works: The Topoi of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Travel and Tourism Industry.
- Creator
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Culler, Connie, Scott, Blake, Jones, Dan, Rounsaville, Angela, Dingo, Rebecca, University of Central Florida
- Abstract / Description
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This dissertation focuses on the identification and analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) topoi in the travel and tourism industry. A sample set of six companies was selected for the study due to their size and prominence in the industry -- namely Disney, Hilton, Intercontinental, Marriott, Starwood, and Wyndham. Topoi were identified through a blended method of research that employed rhetorical analysis, modified grounded theory, and NVIVO content analysis software. The research...
Show moreThis dissertation focuses on the identification and analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) topoi in the travel and tourism industry. A sample set of six companies was selected for the study due to their size and prominence in the industry -- namely Disney, Hilton, Intercontinental, Marriott, Starwood, and Wyndham. Topoi were identified through a blended method of research that employed rhetorical analysis, modified grounded theory, and NVIVO content analysis software. The research followed three guiding principles to recognize textual cues and drive analysis: common and special topoi; topoi as heuristic; topoi for association and amplification; and topoi as fluid and movable. The common CSR topoi, triple bottom line and shared value, were also used as overarching categories for coding the texts. The results of the method yielded six unique topoi that were specific to each company; these included Inspiration, Higher Purpose, Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, The Age of Great Change, and Green. Results also included a set of seven special industry topoi that were common across all of the sample companies; these included Commitment, Management, Alignment, Environment, Engagement, Achievement, and Sustainability. The rhetorical synergy and topological levels identified through this research can inform other studies of CSR about the generative potential of topoi and its fluidity when viewed from different conceptual vantage points.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2015
- Identifier
- CFE0005936, ucf:50851
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005936
- Title
- The Halifax Country Florida: Daytona, Daytona Beach, Seabreeze.
- Creator
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PALMM (Project)
- Abstract / Description
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Collection of photographs of Daytona, Daytona Beach, Seabreeze and the surroung area with an emphasis on hotels and scenery.
- Identifier
- AAB9023QF00007/26/200511/14/200622719BfamIi D0QF, FIPS12127, FHP C UCF 2005-08-03, FCLA url 20060324xOCLC, 75969658, CF00001719, 2584334, ucf:19635
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001719.jpg
- Title
- A visit to Florida, February 1870: Florida revisited after thiry years, 1897 & 1902.
- Creator
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Browne, Alice E., PALMM (Project)
- Abstract / Description
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Handwritten text in prebound ledger book describing three trips from New York to Florida. Includes many commercially produced pictures as well as sketches by the author.
- Date Issued
- 1902
- Date Created
- 1902
- Identifier
- AAB6389QF00001/19/200508/04/200516415BftmIa D0QF, FHP C CF 2005-01-19, huc30801, huc3080102, FCLA url 20050208xOCLC, 58801269, CF00001670, 2578650, ucf:26124
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001670.jpg
- Title
- Orlando Florida.
- Creator
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PALMM (Project)
- Abstract / Description
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Pictures and text depicting Orlando c.1913.
- Date Issued
- 1913
- Identifier
- AAB6377QF00001/18/200508/04/200516221BfamIa D0QF, FIPS12095, FHP C CF 2005-01-19, FCLA url 20050220xOCLC, 58808752, CF00001692, 2580605, ucf:17278
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001692.jpg
- Title
- Histoire de la conquête de la Floride, ou, Relation de ce qui s'est passé dans la découverte de ce païs par Ferdinand de Soto: Seconde partie.
- Creator
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Vega, Garcilaso de la, Richelet, Pierre, PALMM (Project)
- Abstract / Description
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Describes Hernando de Soto's march of conquest in Florida and other parts of southeastern North America.
- Date Issued
- 1709
- Identifier
- AAA3453QF00001/16/200208/04/200516032BfamI D0QF, BN2433 - 3244, 2167482c, FHP C CF 2002-01-16, FCLA url 20020610xOCLC, 50187090, CF00001576_0002_000, 2434468, ucf:21237
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/CF00001576.jpg
- Title
- Hotel Polk, Haines City Florida.
- Creator
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PALMM (Project)
- Abstract / Description
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Small brochure promoting the Hotel Polk (built in 1926) and recreational activities in Haines City.
- Date Issued
- 1928
- Identifier
- AAC3723QF00002/02/200706/21/200714812BnamI D0QF, FHP C CF 2007-02-02, FIPS12105, FCLA url 20070528xOCLC, 144756897, CF00001746, 2704279, ucf:19980
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001746.jpg
- Title
- My pioneer days in Florida, 1876-1898.
- Creator
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Bell, Emily Lagow, PALMM (Project)
- Abstract / Description
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Personal account of the Bell family's move from Indiana to Ft. Pierce, Florida with numerous anecdotes and descriptions of places they saw and people they met.
- Identifier
- AAC2509QF00011/15/200603/02/200712094BnamI? D0QF, FHP S UCF 2006-11-15, FIPS12111, FCLA url 20070302, CF00001730, 2700743, ucf:20074
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001730.jpg
- Title
- Ferdinand de Soto: the discoverer of the Mississippi.
- Creator
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Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), PALMM (Project)
- Abstract / Description
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A history of the expeditions and military conquests of Hernando de Soto in South America, Florida, Georgia, and Alabama.
- Date Issued
- 1873
- Identifier
- AAA3226QF00011/15/200108/04/200515837BfamI D0QF, 0392343, FHP C CF 2001-11-15, FCLA url 20020220xOCLC, 49296621, CF00001555, 2555781, ucf:6180
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/CF00001555.jpg
- Title
- 'A Room of Their Own': Heritage Tourism and the Challenging of Heteropatriarchal Masculinity in Scottish National Narratives.
- Creator
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O'Neill, Carys, Lyons, Amelia, Beiler, Rosalind, Cheong, Caroline, University of Central Florida
- Abstract / Description
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This thesis explores the visibility of women in traditionally masculine Scottish national narratives as evidenced by their physical representation, or lack thereof, in the cultural heritage landscape. Beginning with the 1707 Act of Union between Scotland and England, a moment cemented in history, literature, and popular memory as the beginning of a Scottish rebirth, this thesis traces the evolution of Scottish national identity and the tropes employed for its assertion to paint a clearer...
Show moreThis thesis explores the visibility of women in traditionally masculine Scottish national narratives as evidenced by their physical representation, or lack thereof, in the cultural heritage landscape. Beginning with the 1707 Act of Union between Scotland and England, a moment cemented in history, literature, and popular memory as the beginning of a Scottish rebirth, this thesis traces the evolution of Scottish national identity and the tropes employed for its assertion to paint a clearer picture of the power of strategic selectivity and the effects of sacrifice in the process of community definition. Following the transformation of the rugged Celtic Highlander from his pre-Union relegation as an outer barbarian to his post-Union embrace as the epitome of distinction and the embodiment of anti-English, anti-aristocratic sentiment so crucial to the negotiation of a Scottish place in union and empire, this thesis hones in on notions of gender and peformative identity to form the basis for an analysis of twentieth and twenty-first century national heritage dynamics. An innovative spatial study of monuments and memorials in the Scottish capital city of Edinburgh highlights the gendered inequity of memorialization efforts and the impact of limited female visibility on the storytelling potential of the cityscape. Such a perspective not only adds a distinct visual component but also brings my study full circle by exemplifying contemporary discussions on the role of gender in narrative-setting, the sociocultural relevance of monuments and memorials, and the nature of representation in public spaces.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2019
- Identifier
- CFE0007846, ucf:52811
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007846
- Title
- Juan Ponce de Leon.
- Creator
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Ober, Frederick A. (Frederick Albion), PALMM (Project)
- Abstract / Description
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Biography of Juan Ponce de León, including a description of the events in Spain and the Caribbean which may have shaped the his early life. Discusses relations between the Spaniards and the Indians of the West Indies, chiefly those found in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. Chapter XIV (p. 182-[198]) gives an account of Ponce de León's discovery of Florida in 1513. His return and death there in 1521 is given in Ch. XX (p. 269-[282]).
- Date Issued
- 1908
- Identifier
- AAA7988QF00010/16/200311/23/200416176BfamIa D0QF, ONICF061- 7, FHP C CF 2003-10-16, FCLA url 20040617xOCLC, 55694722, CF00001643, 2573840, ucf:15662
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001643.jpg
- Title
- Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto in the conquest of Florida: as told by a knight of Elvas and in a relation by Luys Hernandez de Biedma.
- Creator
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Hernández de Biedma, Luys., Smith, Buckingham, PALMM (Project)
- Abstract / Description
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Describes Hernando de Soto's march of conquest in Florida and other parts of southeastern North America.
- Date Issued
- 1866
- Identifier
- AAA7992QF00010/16/200311/23/200416197BfamIa D0QF, ONICF145- 3, FHP C CF 2003-10-16, FCLA url 20040613xOCLC, 55695696, CF00001641, 2573028, ucf:15284
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001641.jpg
