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“The Path To Independence: A Comparative Analysis Of The Development Of Independent Media In The Early United States And The Contemporary Republic Of Georgia.”, Liza Ortego May 2005

“The Path To Independence: A Comparative Analysis Of The Development Of Independent Media In The Early United States And The Contemporary Republic Of Georgia.”, Liza Ortego

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.


Effects Of Reinstatement Of Generation Encoding Operations On Source Decisions, Megan K. Littrell May 2005

Effects Of Reinstatement Of Generation Encoding Operations On Source Decisions, Megan K. Littrell

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No abstract provided.


A Pattern Of Press Self-Criticism In The First Half Of The Twentieth Century, Rebecca Ann Markway May 2005

A Pattern Of Press Self-Criticism In The First Half Of The Twentieth Century, Rebecca Ann Markway

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No abstract provided.


The Effect Of Social Support On Physical Health In Older Individuals, Erin M. Jackson May 2005

The Effect Of Social Support On Physical Health In Older Individuals, Erin M. Jackson

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Viral Marketing: What It Is And Where It Is Going, Laura Ashley Aucion May 2005

Viral Marketing: What It Is And Where It Is Going, Laura Ashley Aucion

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Do Humans Perceive Sexual Words As Threatening?, Donice Meriwether Alverson-Banks May 2005

Do Humans Perceive Sexual Words As Threatening?, Donice Meriwether Alverson-Banks

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Adult Demographic Composition In The Poole-Rose Ossuary, Kirsten Marie Brown May 2005

Adult Demographic Composition In The Poole-Rose Ossuary, Kirsten Marie Brown

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Attribution Processes Of Stability, Controllability, And Responsibility In Impoverished Parents Of Children With And Without Behavior Disorders, Jane G. Cranford May 2005

Attribution Processes Of Stability, Controllability, And Responsibility In Impoverished Parents Of Children With And Without Behavior Disorders, Jane G. Cranford

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Us Current Account Imbalance, Milena Gueorguieva May 2005

Us Current Account Imbalance, Milena Gueorguieva

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No abstract provided.


Ideology And Culture: The Case Of The National Socialists, Patrick A. Holly May 2005

Ideology And Culture: The Case Of The National Socialists, Patrick A. Holly

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No abstract provided.


Hiv/Aids And The Economy In Southern Africa, Kathrin Gerner May 2005

Hiv/Aids And The Economy In Southern Africa, Kathrin Gerner

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The Success Of Liberation Theology In Argentina And Brazil, Lauren Hayter May 2005

The Success Of Liberation Theology In Argentina And Brazil, Lauren Hayter

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Black Conservatism In My Life: The Trends Of The Last Twenty Years, Andrew Wilson Reed May 2005

Black Conservatism In My Life: The Trends Of The Last Twenty Years, Andrew Wilson Reed

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Diversity And The Effects On Accounting Students’ Ethical Awareness, Sanaz Shelia Aghazadeh Apr 2005

Diversity And The Effects On Accounting Students’ Ethical Awareness, Sanaz Shelia Aghazadeh

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Conservative Public Interest Group Litigation, Michael Warren Tipton Apr 2005

Conservative Public Interest Group Litigation, Michael Warren Tipton

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Informe Técnico De Los Trabajos De Campo Del Proyecto Arqueológico Huambacho-Temporada 2004, David Chicoine, Jeisen Navarro Feb 2005

Informe Técnico De Los Trabajos De Campo Del Proyecto Arqueológico Huambacho-Temporada 2004, David Chicoine, Jeisen Navarro

Faculty Publications

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Recentism In Environmental History On Latin America, Andrew Sluyter Jan 2005

Recentism In Environmental History On Latin America, Andrew Sluyter

Faculty Publications

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Is Geography Destiny?: Lessons From Latin America. And Troubled Harvest: Agronomy And Revolution In Mexico, 1880–2002, Andrew Sluyter Jan 2005

Is Geography Destiny?: Lessons From Latin America. And Troubled Harvest: Agronomy And Revolution In Mexico, 1880–2002, Andrew Sluyter

Faculty Publications

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Another Test Of The News: How The Early American Press Reported The French Revolution, Jacquelyn Cole Jan 2005

Another Test Of The News: How The Early American Press Reported The French Revolution, Jacquelyn Cole

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Risk Properties Of A Stein-Like Estimator For Multinomial Choice Models, Vera Alexandrova Tabakova Jan 2005

Risk Properties Of A Stein-Like Estimator For Multinomial Choice Models, Vera Alexandrova Tabakova

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Stein-rule estimators, also known as shrinkage estimators, combine sample and non-sample information in a way that improves the precision of the estimation process or the quality of subsequent predictions. A Stein-rule estimator is a weighted average of a restricted and an unrestricted estimator, where the weights determine the degree of shrinkage, i.e. the importance that we place on the non-sample information. The existing literature shows that Stein-rule estimators may lead to squared error risk improvements in the linear regression, and in a number of non-linear models. The dissertation explores Stein-rule estimation in the context of multinomial choice models. It consists …


Feed Sack Fashions In South Louisiana, 1949-1968: The Use Of Commodity Bags In Garment Construction, Jennifer Lynn Banning Jan 2005

Feed Sack Fashions In South Louisiana, 1949-1968: The Use Of Commodity Bags In Garment Construction, Jennifer Lynn Banning

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

In the first part of this study, 37 commodity bag garments made and worn by one woman in rural South Louisiana between the years 1949-1968 were analyzed. The garments are currently in the collection of the Louisiana State University Textile and Costume Museum. A material culture study model, originally developed by Fleming and adapted from Severa and Horswill, was used to identify, evaluate, culturally analyze and interpret the design, construction, and fabric characteristics of garments. Access to this collection provided a rare opportunity to examine the attributes of a related group of commodity bag garments. In the second part of …


Lost In Transition: Welfare To Work In Louisiana, Theresa C. Davidson Jan 2005

Lost In Transition: Welfare To Work In Louisiana, Theresa C. Davidson

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The decline in welfare rolls coupled with the increase in work activity among former recipients since the mid-nineties might indicate that welfare reform legislation has been a success. This is only part of the story describing the impact of welfare reform. Although many have exited the rolls, a significant number still have not found work, others remain on aid, and some struggle through the transition relying on a combination of welfare and work. Even those who fit the narrow definition of "success" and have left welfare for formal employment experience significant hardship. Overall, regardless of work and welfare status, most …


The Psychosocial Vulnerability Model Of Hostility As A Predictor Of Coronary Heart Disease, Karen Grothe Jan 2005

The Psychosocial Vulnerability Model Of Hostility As A Predictor Of Coronary Heart Disease, Karen Grothe

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the number one killer for both men and women in the United States today. African Americans are particularly at risk, due to higher prevalence rates and mortality related to CHD (American Heart Association, 2003). Less than half of the new cases of CHD can be predicted with known risk factors (tobacco use, obesity, hypertension), which suggests the possible influence of personality or additional behavioral factors. Hostility is a psychological variable that has been consistently related to health outcomes, particularly to CHD. While the exact mechanism linking hostility to health is currently unknown, a psychosocial vulnerability …


The Effects Of Sex And Context On Student's Interpretation Of Teachers' High Immediacy Messages, Carolyn Hornsby Rester Jan 2005

The Effects Of Sex And Context On Student's Interpretation Of Teachers' High Immediacy Messages, Carolyn Hornsby Rester

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Teacher immediacy has been positively associated with many desirable academic outcomes, including quality student-teacher relationships, student participation in the classroom and in extra-class interaction, and increased student learning. Thus, scholars have consistently encouraged educators to increase their use of immediacy in contacts with students. However, some previous research found that high levels of teacher immediacy can be problematic in relationships and detrimental to desirable educational outcomes. Immediacy behavior tends to promote personal relationships and inclusion. However, excessive immediacy may change the meaning that students receive from the behavior. Using a message interpretation perspective, this study examined how sex of the …


Illinois Legislators Revisited: A Comparison Of Legislators' Perceptions And Attitudes Toward Constituent E-Mail, Mary Louise Sheffer Jan 2005

Illinois Legislators Revisited: A Comparison Of Legislators' Perceptions And Attitudes Toward Constituent E-Mail, Mary Louise Sheffer

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This is a follow up study to a 2000 report, which measured and compared Illinois state legislators’ attitudes and perceptions toward constituent e-mail, and its impact on personal political agendas. Along with measuring attitudes, this study sought to measure and compare the impact of advances in e-mail technology on Illinois legislators’ use of e-mail as a political tool of communication. The panel comparison consisted of 59% of respondents who participated in both the 2000 and the 2004 study. A survey conducted in February 2000 showed that 89% of Illinois legislators had an active e-mail address, but only 65% of those …


Boston's Settlement Housing: Social Reform In An Industrial City, Meg Streiff Jan 2005

Boston's Settlement Housing: Social Reform In An Industrial City, Meg Streiff

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Between the Civil War and World War I, American cities underwent dramatic changes: they changed in shape, they changed in size, they changed in terms of who was there, and how those individuals were distributed through the city. The driving force behind these urban morphological changes was industrialization – and the emergence of industrial slums on the edges of expanding business districts. These industrial slums were widely believed to breed disease, crime, intemperance, and immorality – external costs that were being born by the entire society. Yet American society and American philanthropic institutions were not prepared to deal with the …


Bonjour Canada: A Case Study Of The 1995-2000 Louisiana Public Relations Campaign To Attract Canadian Visitors To Louisiana, Bonnie Anne Bauman Jan 2005

Bonjour Canada: A Case Study Of The 1995-2000 Louisiana Public Relations Campaign To Attract Canadian Visitors To Louisiana, Bonnie Anne Bauman

LSU Master's Theses

The research undertaken in this study explores five years of the Louisiana Office of Tourism's public relations campaign to attract Canadian visitors to Louisiana. The study considers how the campaign's organizers used the cultural bond between French-speaking Canadians and Louisiana to attract Canadians to Louisiana. The study also examines how important the public relations strategy of highlighting the cultural bond between host and tourist was in attracting Canadian visitors to the state. In addition, the study uncovers whether or not campaign organizers considered the impact their campaign would have on Louisiana's Cajun citizenry. The research method employed was the case …


A Tale Of Two Champions: Lsu And Southern University Compete For Coverage In Louisiana Newspapers, Damiane Christopher Ricks Jan 2005

A Tale Of Two Champions: Lsu And Southern University Compete For Coverage In Louisiana Newspapers, Damiane Christopher Ricks

LSU Master's Theses

The study’s purpose was to discover if two Louisiana newspapers gave Louisiana State University’s football team more favorable coverage than that of the team from Southern University, a historically black university. A content analysis of articles published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge) and the Times-Picayune (New Orleans) from the 1995 and 1998 seasons when Southern University’s team accomplished greater success than LSU’s team, and the 2003 season when both teams won national championship titles revealed that while LSU’s team did not receive more prominent coverage and praise than Southern University’s team, racial stereotypes appeared throughout the 667 articles analyzed. Although …


Exploring Committee Outliers In A Weak Party State Legislature: The Louisiana House, 2000-2003, Trisha Mari Sandahl Jan 2005

Exploring Committee Outliers In A Weak Party State Legislature: The Louisiana House, 2000-2003, Trisha Mari Sandahl

LSU Master's Theses

Studies on the role of committees in legislatures have focused primarily on the U.S. Congress. In this study I expand on these studies by determining whether or not the distributive, informational, or major party cartel theory used to explain the role of committees at the national level can be extended to the state level; i.e. the Louisiana house legislature. Hypotheses are tested by using roll call votes in the Louisiana House for the years 2000-2003. This study finds substantial support for the informational theory and minimal support for the distributive and major party cartel theories in the Louisiana House legislature.


Spatial Heterogeneity In Forested Landscapes: An Examination Of Forest Fragmentation And Suburban Sprawl In The Florida Parishes Of Louisiana, Brady Randall Couvillion Jan 2005

Spatial Heterogeneity In Forested Landscapes: An Examination Of Forest Fragmentation And Suburban Sprawl In The Florida Parishes Of Louisiana, Brady Randall Couvillion

LSU Master's Theses

Forest fragmentation refers to the spatial distribution of forests in a landscape. Forest fragmentation drastically alters forest composition, habitat quality, genetic flow and many other ecological processes associated with forested ecosystems. This research examined spatial patterns and rates of forest fragmentation during the 1991-2001 period for a region in southeast Louisiana known as the "Florida Parishes." Following classification of 1991 and 2001 Landsat data into forest and non-forest classes, spatial patterns were examined using Fragstats 3.3 spatial analysis software. Spatial statistics such as patch density, perimeter to area ratios, core area indices, edge density, and various landscape continuity indices were …