The Central Florida Mosaic Interface - Stage II

This proposal is for a Level II grant for $50,000 to complete the second phase of the Central Florida Mosaic Interface (CFMI). The intellectual foundation for the CFMI is based on and will address two issues: regional identity in Central Florida, and the problem of usability of interactive websites for specific audiences. Regional identity is being addressed through already-funded public humanities projects based on Central Florida history. The content from these established projects will funnel into the CFMI. Usability will be addressed through the unique tools for bridging the gap between accessibility and practicability, including natural language search capabilities, tools for extracting relationships, and interpretive information aimed toward casual users and beginning researchers. The second phase specifically entails incorporating natural language search capabilities into the functionality of the database and expanding the base of sources

500 Years of Florida History--The Seventeenth Century

Seventeenth-century Florida little resembled the region Ponce de Leon first visited in 1513. Various indigenous peoples still dominated the peninsula but their numbers had dramatically declined over the years due to disease, warfare, and migration. Thousands of Europeans visited the locale during the 1600s, many of them planning to stay permanently, few of them actually doing so, and most failing to realize their economic, religious or imperial goals there. Africans and African Americans also lived in the region and its hinterlands, though the majority did so under circumstances they would not have chosen. Partially as a result, by 1700 Florida had become a representative community of the progressively diverse and complicated Atlantic, Caribbean, and American Worlds. Ponce\u27s Florida no longer existed

Educational development between faculty and administration

This essay employs Identity Theory to explore the professional identities of educational developers, arguing that it is important to pay attention to the different saliences, or weights, that developers attach to the faculty and administrative sides of their identities

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead

500 Years of Florida History - The Nineteenth Century to 1877

In the course of the first seven decades of the nineteenth century Floridians lived under Spanish rule (1784-1821) and spent more than two decades as a territory of the United States before gaining statehood. Florida joined the Confederate States during the Civil War. By the time Florida re-emerged from Reconstruction, the modern world of railroads, industrial capitalism, and urbanization characterized the United States. The essays that constitute this special issue document the transformation of Florida from its colonial period through the era of slavery, the Seminole and Civil wars to the post-emancipation rise of an African American physician. Future scholars will benefit from both the historiographic essay by James G. Cusick and the literary review by Maurice O\u27Sullivan

Introduction: 500 Years of Florida History-The Twentieth Century

This is the last of the special issues devoted to the celebration of Florida\u27s 500 Years of History. Launched in 2013 in conjunction with the state\u27s commemoration of the landing of Juan Ponce de Leon on the peninsula, the Florida Historical Quarterly editors proposed a multi-year, multi-issue endeavor to capture a snapshot of Florida history at the second decade of the twenty-first century. As conceived the project called for 6 special issues, one each for the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 20th centuries and two for the long 19th century (1800-1920). At completion, the special issues included the work of 31 senior and emerging scholars and 749+ pages of text. Together the special issues offer a comprehensive historiography that highlights diverse, scholarly approaches to understanding Florida history. Over the course of the five-year project, the FHQ editors have noticed that each special issue seems to generate new manuscript submissions that incorporate methodologies or explore questions raised by the series authors. We hope that this surge in scholarship will continue

500 Years of Florida History - The Sixteenth Century: An Introduction

The year 2013 marks the quincentennial of Juan Ponce de Leon\u27s exploration of lands known for the past five hundred years as Florida. Historians have long noted the consequences of Ponce\u27s activities, interpreted their origins, and offered assessments of the region\u27s past as it related to events taking place in 1513 and the century that followed. Some have focused on European conquistadores, highlighting the exploits of colorful individuals and the institutions they represented. Others have emphasized the lives of Florida\u27s indigenous inhabitants, especially their existence prior to colonization and reactions to foreign invaders in subsequent years. In terms of methodology, scholars from a variety of disciplinary fields have relied on travel accounts, government ledgers, and international correspondence to reconstruct the period while increasingly incorporating other forms of evidence uncovered by processes such as bioarchaeology, climate analysis, and oral traditions. Partially as a result, the historiography of sixteenth-century Florida has shifted in emphasis over the years and highlighted various themes. Yet many questions concerning the period and region remain unanswered, or at least, subject to debate. Rather than provide definitive answers that will endure for another five centuries, this Special Issue of the Florida Historical Quarterly offers understandings of Florida\u27s sixteenth-century past as crafted a half-millennia after Ponce made his momentous journey