In today's society a beauty ideal exists in America, which attempts to define female beauty as fitting into a certain mold. Certain characteristics have been deemed the most attractive when it comes to female physical attractiveness, and an ideal image of beauty has been presented by the media. This research focuses on whether or not everyone buys into that beauty ideal, and examines the impact that a person's sex and race has on the physical characteristics which that individual defines as the most appealing. Surveys were administered to 300 UCF students age 18-35. Participants were asked about ten different physical characteristics relating to women, and were asked to choose the characteristic among each group that they found the most physically attractive or beautiful. The study showed that both sex and racial differences do exist, and that there are variations in what different people consider beautiful. Not everyone has the same opinion on what is attractive in regards to the physical appearance of women.

The productivity of agricultural and forest ecosystems in regions at higher latitudes is to a large extent governed by low temperature and moisture conditions. Environmental conditions are acting both above- and below-ground and regulating carbon fluxes and evapotranspiration. However, the understanding of various feedbacks between vegetation and environmental conditions is still unclear. In this thesis, two studies were conducted to understand the physical and biological processes. In the first study, the aim was to simulate soil temperature and moisture dynamics in the bare soil with seasonal frost conditions in China. In the second study, the aims were to model seasonal courses of carbon and evapotranspiration and to examine the responses of photosynthesis, transpiration and respiration on environmental conditions in a boreal Scots pine ecosystem in Finland. In both studies the CoupModel was applied to simulate the dynamic responses of the systems. Both sites represented investigations from which a high number of measurements were available. To understand to what extent the data could be used to increase the understanding of the systems, the Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) was applied. The GLUE method was useful to reduce basic uncertainties with respect to parameter ranges, model structures and measurements. The strong interactions between soil temperature and moisture processes have indicated by a few behavioral models obtained when constrained by combined temperature and moisture criteria. Model performance on sensible and latent heat fluxes and net ecosystem exchange (NEE) also indicated the coupled processes within the system. Seasonal and diurnal courses were reproduced successfully with reduced parameter ranges. However, uncertainties on what is the most general regulation for transpiration and NEE are still unclear and need further systematic investigations. / QC 20101206

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T15:07:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Fernanda Rodrigues Mendes.pdf: 596557 bytes, checksum: 356192df70d17abe993a9b9d4fc158ba (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-03-02 / The objective of this study to verify the physical, chemical and bacteriological egg-washed and not washed undergoing experimental infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa and stored at 5 oC and 25 oC during the 30 days. We used 768 eggs without cracks and classified as large, hens line Dekalb White, 30 to 40 weeks of age, and 384 for physical and chemical quality and 384 for bacteriological quality. The experimental design was in blocks of two stages and in factorial 2 x 2 x 2 (contamination, washing and storage temperature) with six repetitions for variables of physical, chemical and bacteriological. Eggs were contaminated by handling, with 1.5 x 105 units forming colonies (CFU) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa / mL and remained 5c and stored at 25oC for 30 days. Every 10 days were analyzed physical quality of eggs (egg weight, specific gravity, thickness shell, yolk percentage, albumen and shell, Haugh unit, yolk index and albumen), chemistry (pH of albumen and yolk) and bacteriological (count bacteria on the shell and contents of the egg). To analyze the weight loss of eggs at 30 days were used 96 eggs weighed every three days. The experimental design was randomized blocks in factorial 2 x 2 x 2 (Contamination washing x x storage temperature), with six replicates and one egg per experimental unit. It was observed that the cooling maintained the internal egg quality even when there was contamination in shell with inoculum of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (p <0.05). It was concluded that the Refrigeration slows weight loss and provides better internal quality, physics, and chemistry of eggs during the 30 days of storage (p> 0.05), independent of the contamination and the washing process. Best values internal quality were obtained in chilled eggs (p <0.05), eggs stored at 5 ° C had lower bacterial counts (p <0.05). It was concluded that the cooling provides better quality of bacteriological eggs during 30 days of storage and that there was more growth bacterial washed eggs and especially the content of the eggs. / Objetivou-se com este estudo verificar a qualidade física, química e bacteriológica de ovos lavados e não-lavados submetidos à contaminação experimental com Pseudomonas aeruginosa e armazenados a 5oC e 25oC durante o período de 30 dias. Foram utilizados 768 ovos sem trincas e classificados como grandes, de poedeiras leves da linhagem Dekalb White, com 30 a 40 semanas de idade, sendo 384 para qualidade física e química e 384 para qualidade bacteriológica. O delineamento empregado foi em blocos com duas etapas e em esquema fatorial 2 x 2 x 2 (contaminação, lavagem e temperatura de armazenamento) com seis repetições para variáveis de qualidade física, química e bacteriológica. Os ovos foram contaminados, pelo manuseio, com 1,5 x 105 unidades formadoras de colônias (UFCs) de Pseudomonas aeruginosa/mL de solução e permaneceram armazenados a 5oC e 25oC por 30 dias. A cada 10 dias foram realizadas análises de qualidade física dos ovos (peso do ovo, gravidade específica, espessura de casca, porcentagem de gema, albume e casca, unidade Haugh, índices de gema e albume), química (pH do albume e da gema) e bacteriológica (contagem de bactérias na casca e no conteúdo do ovo). Para analisar a perda de peso dos ovos ao final de 30 dias foram utilizados 96 ovos pesados a cada três dias. O delineamento utilizado foi em blocos casualizados em esquema fatorial 2 x 2 x 2 (contaminação x lavagem x temperatura de armazenamento), com seis repetições e um ovo a unidade experimental. Observou-se que a refrigeração manteve a qualidade interna dos ovos mesmo quando houve contaminação na casca com inóculo de Pseudomonas aeruginosa (p<0,05). Concluiu-se que a refrigeração retarda a perda de peso e proporciona melhor qualidade interna, física, e química de ovos durante os 30 dias de armazenamento (p>0,05), independente da contaminação e do processo de lavagem. Melhores valores de qualidade interna foram obtidos nos ovos refrigerados (p<0,05), Os ovos armazenados a 5ºC apresentaram menor contagem bacteriana (p<0,05). Concluiu-se que a refrigeração proporciona melhor qualidade bacteriologica dos ovos durante 30 dias de armazenamento e que houve maior crescimento bacteriano nos ovos lavados e principalmente no conteúdo dos ovos.