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Boardinghouses, Parties And The Creation Of A Political Society: Washington City, 1800-1830, Cynthia Diane Earman
Boardinghouses, Parties And The Creation Of A Political Society: Washington City, 1800-1830, Cynthia Diane Earman
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Washington's elite society was a political society where members of Congress, the president, members of his cabinet, Supreme Court justices, and members of the diplomatic corps met with members of the press, and other visitors to the capital, and long term residents came together to form a unique society. This study evolved from the premise that James Sterling Young's view of Washington City was flawed. Three questions guided this project: How did Washington change over time?; Why were specific boardinghouses chosen?; and What role did elite wives play in the Washington community? Washington's elite community was by definition a political …
Solid-State Nmr Studies Of Organometallic Complexes, Ae Ja Kim
Solid-State Nmr Studies Of Organometallic Complexes, Ae Ja Kim
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Solid-state NMR spectroscopy has been used to obtain information about electronic structure and molecular geometry for some organometallic complexes. The principal elements of the 13C chemical shielding tensor for a dimetallocyclopropane unit and three square-planar metal cyanides have been determined from a nonlinear least squares fit of the chemical shift powder pattern. For the dimetallocyclopropane unit, the orientation of the chemical shielding tensor with respect to the molecular axis has been assigned based on the dipolar coupling tensor. The principal elements of the 13P chemical shielding tensor for three binuclear platinum diphosphite complexes have been obtained from a …
Nietzsche And Heraclitus, Virginia Lyle Jennings Howard
Nietzsche And Heraclitus, Virginia Lyle Jennings Howard
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Nietzshe's philosophical ideas are closely based upon his early studies of Greek thought. Unless his philosophy is approached from the standpoint of its foundation in the ancient Greeks, Heraclitus in particular, then it can be difficult to gain a coherent picture of Nietzsche's thought. In Heraclitus he found an affirmation of precisely what he loved about the ancient Greek way of life, its most fundamental concept: the contest. The Greeks embrace their apparently terrible characteristics and control them with a rule-governed contest. In the same way Heraclitus's universe consists of opposites which strive for dominion, not through wars of annihilation, …
The Role Of Bovine Herpesvirus-1 Glycoprotein Iii In Molecular Pathogenesis And Immunomodulation., Katherine Marie Byrne
The Role Of Bovine Herpesvirus-1 Glycoprotein Iii In Molecular Pathogenesis And Immunomodulation., Katherine Marie Byrne
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Bovine herpesvirus-1 (BHV-1) is the pathogenic agent for infectious bovine rhinotracheitis. Current vaccines to protect against infection have serious disadvantages to producers and have been implicated in epizootic outbreaks. The virus has also been shown to cause suppression of the immune system. BHV-1 vaccines could be improved by identifying and genetically deleting those aspects of the virus responsible for immunosuppression and providing a marker within the genome which would distinguish the vaccine strain from wild types in the case of disease outbreaks. This study examined the role of gIII in viral infection and immunosuppression. This was accomplished by expressing full …
Wave-Forced Hydrogeology And Diagenesis, Tague Reef, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands., Brian Leslie Carter
Wave-Forced Hydrogeology And Diagenesis, Tague Reef, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands., Brian Leslie Carter
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Wave driven pressure variations in reef porewater were used to investigate the physical processes that affect early marine carbonate cementation in a bank-barrier reef. Cores taken along a transect, and porewater geochemistry sampled from wells were used to characterize sedimentary and geochemical environments. The cores show an Acropora palmata framework with a patchily cemented sandy matrix composes the forereef and reef crest, with dominantly loose sediments in the backreef. Hydraulic conductivities are approximately 1 $\times$ 10$\sp{-4}$ m/s. The wave climate is moderate, with up to 75 % wave height attenuation across the reef crest. Porewater pressure variations correspond to surface …
Cultural Studies And The Multicultural Curriculum., Mary Susan Huddleston Edgerton
Cultural Studies And The Multicultural Curriculum., Mary Susan Huddleston Edgerton
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Although some of the most recent work in the field of multicultural education has acknowledged and begun to theorize about what has been called the new cultural politics of difference, problems concerning the very notions of marginality, boundaries, and their accompanying "essentialist" thought remain undertheorized. It is my intention to bring discussions about marginality and essentialism from literary theory, feminist psychoanalytic theory and poststructuralist philosophy more explicitly into the conversation about multicultural curriculum theorizing. In this study I have attempted to further develop this conversation around notions of "translation" as generated by philosophers Michel Serres (1982) and John Rajchmann (1991) …
Impact Of The Preservice Field Experience In Foreign Language Teaching: A Study Of The Development Of Preservice Teachers' Perspectives In Foreign Language Teaching. (Volumes I And Ii)., Denise Egea-Kuehne
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Within the broader issue of teacher education, the focus of this study is on one of the most neglected areas of inquiry in the field of foreign languages, the preservice field experience, and the development of student teachers' perspectives of foreign language teaching. The following questions were specifically addressed: (1) What perspectives of foreign language teaching do student teachers hold upon completion of their program of university courses? (2) Is there an alteration of student teachers' perspectives of foreign language teaching during their student teaching semester? (3) What factors appear to influence student teachers' perspectives of foreign language teaching during …
Distinctions Between Reefs And Bioherms Based On Studies Of Fossil Algae: Mizzia, Permian Capitan Reef Complex (Guadalupe Mountains, Texas And New Mexico) And Eugonophyllum, Pennsylvanian Holder Formation (Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico)., Brenda Kirkland George
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The udoteacean alga Eugonophyllum is well-preserved in the Virgilian Holder Formation, Sacramento Mountains. Original aragonite occurs as a felt-like mesh of needles in algal thalli, mollusc fragments, sponge walls, botryoidal, and isopachous marine cements. In the basal, heavily calcified portion of Eugonophyllum the interior of the thallus is composed of aragonitic felt punctuated by 20 $\mu$m diameter, parallel siphons. In the distal, less calcified portion of the thallus, irregularly arranged siphons are larger. This study substantiates suggested similarities between Pennsylvanian/Permian phylloid algal mounds and Holocene Halimeda mounds. The Permian dasyclad Mizzia is important for paleoecological study in the Guadalupe Mountains, …
The Relation Between Stress And Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus: Physiologic Arousal Or Disruption Of Compliance?, Virginia Diane Garrett
The Relation Between Stress And Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus: Physiologic Arousal Or Disruption Of Compliance?, Virginia Diane Garrett
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The relations between minor life events, compliance, urinary free cortisol, and blood glucose in 40 adults with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus was examined. Specifically, this study explored whether naturally-occurring minor stressful events had disruptive effects on metabolic control through: (a) an arousal mechanism mediated by cortisol, (b) disruption of the individual's adherence to prescribed treatment, (c) a combination of arousal and disruption of compliance, or (d) a third, unspecified mechanism. Stress did not influence metabolic control, either independently or via a stress-compliance or stress-arousal mechanism although stress was related to cortisol activity. Neither the direct effects of cortisol nor a cortisol …
Bibl. Nat. Ms. Fr. 379: A Study In Word And Image. (Volumes I And Ii)., Adelaide Stuart Frazier
Bibl. Nat. Ms. Fr. 379: A Study In Word And Image. (Volumes I And Ii)., Adelaide Stuart Frazier
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The Bibl. Nat. ms. fr. 379 offers a religious, social, literary and artistic comment on the implications of the early sixteenth century world. The cult of the Virgin is considered as it supported and directed the poetry contests or puy at Rouen and Dieppe in their particular emphases on the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of the Virgin, both ideas more dogmatic than scriptural. The conduct of the puy controlled the literary and artistic expressions on the subject. A detailed discussion submits the evidence that the poets reflected the secular world in their poems and the artists' illustrations often rejected …
The Rhetoric Of Science: A Case Study Of The Cold Fusion Controversy., David Lee Hatfield
The Rhetoric Of Science: A Case Study Of The Cold Fusion Controversy., David Lee Hatfield
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation examines the circumstances surrounding and the rhetoric involved in the cold fusion controversy begun on March 23, 1989, when two University of Utah electrochemists, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, announced by press conference the discovery of room-temperature nuclear fusion. The dissertation seeks to determine to what extent a rhetorical analysis of cold fusion discourse may increase understanding of the controversy; the success of Fleischmann and Pons as scientific rhetors; the ways in which scientists' attitudes, values, and assumptions manifest themselves in the discourse; and finally, what may be learned about scientific discourse in general by examining the cold …
Making The Secular Sacred: An Analysis Of Linguistic Devices Used To Give Religious Perspective To Ordinary Events., Wayne Porter Gregory
Making The Secular Sacred: An Analysis Of Linguistic Devices Used To Give Religious Perspective To Ordinary Events., Wayne Porter Gregory
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
It has been suggested that human beings do not possess social reality so much as they actively and cooperatively construct it by means of language in interaction with others. The manipulation of symbols, the creation of inferences, the posturing of one's personal identity all work together to enable participants (both speakers and hearers) in a given speech event to create social reality and reaffirm and maintain their social relationships. In religious speech communities, like the one investigated in this study, participants seek to create a different kind of social reality--one that encompasses all of the individual and corporate experiences of …
Genetic And Systematic Study Of Viviparus Georgianus (Lea), A Freshwater Snail Species Complex., Masaya Katoh
Genetic And Systematic Study Of Viviparus Georgianus (Lea), A Freshwater Snail Species Complex., Masaya Katoh
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Genetic and morphological variation were studied in a brooding (ovoviviparous) and morphologically variable freshwater snail (Viviparus georgianus (Lea)) in the southeastern United States. Eleven populations were clustered into three genetically isolated, allopatric species characterized by 7 to 15 diagnostic loci out of the 38 loci examined. These allopatric species were an eastern species (in eastern and southern Florida), a western species (in the Florida panhandle), and a central species in the Ochlockonee River. Nei's standard genetic distances between species were large (0.23-0.52) compared to within-species distances (0.00-0.06). Moreover, genetic distances between the Ochlockonee River species and other species were larger …
Recovery Of Sugars From Cane Molasses By Continuous Simulated Moving Bed Ion-Exclusion Chromatography., Khalid Iqbal
Recovery Of Sugars From Cane Molasses By Continuous Simulated Moving Bed Ion-Exclusion Chromatography., Khalid Iqbal
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Present investigation was undertaken to determine the feasibility of using a Simulated Moving Bed (SMB) Ion Exclusion Chromatographic system for the recovery of sugars from molasses. The recovery of sugars from molasses is complicated because of the presence of high concentration of salts of K, Ca, Mg, etc. The presence of these salts in the molasses prevents sucrose to crystallize. SMB Ion Exclusion Chromatography has been shown to be successful to recover sugars from beet molasses, and to separate sugars from each other in High Fructose Corn Syrup industry. The basis of the ion exclusion is that the sorbent used …
Tournaments And Ideal Class Groups., Robert John Kingan
Tournaments And Ideal Class Groups., Robert John Kingan
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
In a series of papers published in the 1930's, L. Redei and H. Reichardt established a method for determining the 4-rank of the narrow ideal class group of a quadratic number field, essentially by finding the rank over ${\bf F}\sb2$ of a $\{0,1\}$-matrix determined by applying the Kronecker symbol to the prime divisors of the field discriminant. When this field is of the form ${\bf Q}(m\sp{1\over2}),$ with $m={\pm}p\sb1{\cdots}p\sb{n},$ each $p\sb{i}\equiv3$ (mod 4) prime, this matrix takes a form similar to that of the adjacency matrix for a tournament graph. Also, in this case we can find the 4-rank of the …
Metaphor Within/Without Metaphysics: Nietzsche, Heidegger, And Derrida., Jonggab Kim
Metaphor Within/Without Metaphysics: Nietzsche, Heidegger, And Derrida., Jonggab Kim
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The contemporary preoccupation with metaphor lies in its capability of deconstructing and disempowering metaphysics, and of creating a logic of uncertainty or a Derridian logic of supplements in opposition to the logic of identity and of non-contradiction. As a figure of speech saying one thing but meaning something else, metaphor contains in itself a certain alterity and otherness which resists a logical identity as well as a systematic philosophy. In my study of metaphor in the texts of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida, I inquire into the problematic relation or difference between philosophy and metaphor, focusing on how the former is …
Control Of Phytoplankton Production In A Shallow, Turbid Estuary., Christopher J. Madden
Control Of Phytoplankton Production In A Shallow, Turbid Estuary., Christopher J. Madden
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Water column primary production and chlorophyll were sampled between 1986-1991 in Fourleague Bay, LA, a shallow (1.5 m), river-dominated estuary that is extremely turbid (K$\sb{\rm D}$ = 4.44 m$\sp{-1}$). A high speed system for continuous flow-through sampling, Dataflow$\sp\copyright$, was developed to measure physicochemical variables and in vivo chlorophyll fluorescence at high temporal (1 s) and spatial (5 m) resolution from a small boat. Phytoplankton net primary production (NPP) was measured using an incubator which rotated bottles to prevent settling of the contents. NPP was found to be artificially increased by 10-83% at high light levels in non-rotated bottles when cells …
Assessment Of Depression In Adolescents: Relationship Between Iq, Depression, And Adaptive Behavior., Ramasamy Manikam
Assessment Of Depression In Adolescents: Relationship Between Iq, Depression, And Adaptive Behavior., Ramasamy Manikam
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The primary focus of this investigation was to examine differences in depression, general psychopathology, and social skills among adolescents, and to identify the role of adaptive behavior between intelligence (I.Q.) and depression. One hundred adolescents, 13 through 17 years of age participated in this study. I.Q.s ranged between 40 to 130. Five levels of I.Q.s were studied (Above normal, Average, Borderline, Mild, Moderate). Three depression measures, the Child Depression Inventory (CDI), Reynolds Adolescent Depression Scale (RADS), Bellevue Index of Depression (BID), one social skills measure Matson Evaluation of Social Skills with Youngsters (MESSY), and one general psychopathology measure Psychopathology Instrument …
The Effect Of Threecornered Alfalfa Hopper Populations On Alfalfa Growth And The Development Of Host Plant Resistance Screening Techniques., Daniel John Moellenbeck
The Effect Of Threecornered Alfalfa Hopper Populations On Alfalfa Growth And The Development Of Host Plant Resistance Screening Techniques., Daniel John Moellenbeck
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation research was designed with three main objectives: to evaluate the effects of threecornered alfalfa hopper, Spissistilus festinus (Say), feeding on alfalfa, Medicago sativa L., yield, regrowth, root carbohydrate composition, and disease incidence; to screen alfalfa cultivars for resistance to the threecornered alfalfa hopper and develop effective screening techniques; and to determine the mechanism(s) of this resistance. Greenhouse studies determined the effects of threecornered alfalfa hopper infestations on alfalfa growth and their relationship with Fusarium crown-rot. Significant interaction effects between insect population and the presence of Fusarium were found for number of harvestable stems and acid detergent fiber concentration. …
Structural, Immunological, And Functional Characterization Of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Proteins., Mark Anton Miller
Structural, Immunological, And Functional Characterization Of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Proteins., Mark Anton Miller
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Biochemical, immunological, and structural characterizations of the structural proteins of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) were performed. Various electrophoretic and chromatographic analyses of native and metabolically radiolabeled virus preparations coupled with immunological procedures such as Western blotting and radioimmunoprecipitation were utilized to identify SIV/DeltaB670-encoded polypeptides. Two-dimensional tryptic peptide mapping of each putative viral protein was employed to confirm that each of these components were unique and not cleavage products of precursor polyproteins. Site-directed serological studies using synthetic peptides analogous to regions of the SU and TM protein predicted to have high antigenic potential were performed. These studies resulted in the identification …
Physiology And Biochemistry Of A Lignin-Degrading Bacterium Erwinia Sp. Cu 3614., Janardhanan S. Rajan
Physiology And Biochemistry Of A Lignin-Degrading Bacterium Erwinia Sp. Cu 3614., Janardhanan S. Rajan
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Previous researchers have reported the isolation of a diphenylether cleaving organism, Erwinia sp., using an enrichment medium containing lignin. A copper and dinitrophenol resistant mutant of this organism, Erwinia sp. Cu3614, has also been reported. To assess the effect of copper on the growth and biochemistry of this organism, continuous cultivation was used employing an apparently optimized medium containing ethanol as carbon source. Upon increasing the concentration of copper sulfate in the medium from 5 $\mu$g/ml to 10 $\mu$g/ml increases in maximum specific growth rate and growth yield were seen. Also decrease in the values for doubling time and the …
Shoot Growth And Form Of Senna Obtusifolia In Response To Soybean And Intraspecific Competition., James Edward Smith
Shoot Growth And Form Of Senna Obtusifolia In Response To Soybean And Intraspecific Competition., James Edward Smith
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Effects of competition on growth and formation of shoot structure in sicklepod (Senna obtusifolia) were examined, with particular emphasis on the effect of nearest neighbors on branching and canopy formation. Sicklepod was established as (1) stands of 26 plants m$\sp{-2}$ added to soybean, (2) individuals widely enough spaced to produce only interspecific competition when added to soybean, or (3) regularly spaced monoculture stands with 15, 25, 35, and 50 cm interplant distances. Repeated surveys of individual shoots characterized sicklepod growth and shoot structure in terms of position of and growth at each node. Sicklepod leaf area, internode elongation, node production, …
Community Versus The Imperial Mind: Images Of Civil Strife In Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun"., Henry Michael W Russell
Community Versus The Imperial Mind: Images Of Civil Strife In Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun"., Henry Michael W Russell
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun allegorically represents the crisis of civil order in the American Republic in the 1850s foreshadowing the Civil War that erupted a year after the novel's publication. Hawthorne's last completed romance, set in Rome, suggests Americans must judge themselves against the community and continuity embodied in the European culture they had recently cast off. Challenging Emerson's doctrine that man may have an original relationship to history and the Creator, Hawthorne undermines the Founders' great idea: that an assembly of men could discover and formulate--in an act of the human mind--self-evident, inalienable rights that govern political and …
Failure Predictions In Repairable Multi-Component Systems., Woodrow Thomas Roberts Jr
Failure Predictions In Repairable Multi-Component Systems., Woodrow Thomas Roberts Jr
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The subject of this research is the prediction of failures in repairable multi-component systems from statistical models that utilize the historical failure data for the systems. Failures occurring in repairable systems are examples of a series of discrete events which occur randomly in a continuum. Such stochastic point processes are analyzed using the statistics of event series. The Crow nonhomogenous Poisson process, NHPP, model is recognized by the reliability community as being one of the best models for repairable systems. The objective of this research is to show that the Crow NHPP model, with its overall failure predictions for a …
The Life And Work Of The Orchestral Bass Trombonist, Allen Ostrander, And The Development Of His Bass Trombone Methods And Solos., Ronald Gene Smith
The Life And Work Of The Orchestral Bass Trombonist, Allen Ostrander, And The Development Of His Bass Trombone Methods And Solos., Ronald Gene Smith
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The purpose of this monograph is to document the career of Allen Ostrander as an orchestral bass trombonist as well as an arranger and composer for the instrument. It also examines the significant contributions be made regarding performance skills, teaching, and improvements to the bass trombone. The research was accomplished primarily by conducting an interview with Ostrander. Additional information came from former colleagues, students, and orchestras that give insight into his life and career as performer, composer, and teacher. The monograph begins with a discussion of Ostrander's tenor trombone studies before he became a professional bass trombonist. He studied with …
A Study Of The Differences In Induction Experiences For Teachers In Differentially Effective Schools., Carol Sue Ter Haar
A Study Of The Differences In Induction Experiences For Teachers In Differentially Effective Schools., Carol Sue Ter Haar
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Research studies have concluded that many new teachers abandon their teaching careers shortly after starting them. Part of the reason is their lack of adjustment within the very special social structure of public education. Induction of teachers frequently appears to be inadequate. Research over the past 20 years suggests a correlation between positive induction experiences and the quality of schools. This causal comparative study entailed a 3 x 2 design with three levels of school effectiveness and two levels of teacher experience. The schools were classified as effective, typical, or ineffective based on a classification scheme produced by the Louisiana …
Ultrafast Study Of Photochemistry On Chromium Hexacarbonyl Using Resonance Raman Spectroscopy., Soo-Chang Yu
Ultrafast Study Of Photochemistry On Chromium Hexacarbonyl Using Resonance Raman Spectroscopy., Soo-Chang Yu
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
In this dissertation ultrafast photochemistry of Cr(CO)$\sb6$ using picosecond resonance Raman spectroscopy is studied. The advantage of the transient resonance Raman spectroscopy for this study is demonstrated along with a Raman differencing technique. This study is divided into two main parts. The first part deals with the property of the electronic excited state of the Cr(CO)$\sb6.$ The attempt to reveal the excited electronic structure of Cr(CO)$\sb6$ is tried with the help of Albrecht vibronic theory and wave packet description. Reaction coordinate and Jahn-Teller effects have been investigated in detail. Two possible reaction coordinates are found in contrast to the results …
Stratigraphic Architecture Of An Extensional Orogen: The Mojave Extensional Belt, Southern California., Christopher John Travis
Stratigraphic Architecture Of An Extensional Orogen: The Mojave Extensional Belt, Southern California., Christopher John Travis
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Field-based studies and quantitative models provide new insights into the stratigraphic architecture of a developing continental extensional orogen. The early Miocene age Mojave Extensional Belt of southern California (MEB) exhibits a tripartite stratigraphy, consisting of (1) pre- to early synextension volcanic deposits, unconformably overlain by (2) syntectonic basement-derived megabreccia and breccia with local finer-grained units, overlain by (3) a posttectonic fining-upward sequence of gravel, sand, shale, and limestone. On a more local scale, stratigraphy and sediment dispersal within the MEB reflect the evolution of the major tectonic elements of the belt: (1) Breakaway zone. Strata of the western Newberry Mountains …
Interactive Graphics-Based Musculotendon Modeling For Reconstructive Surgery Of The Hand., Inmo Yoon
Interactive Graphics-Based Musculotendon Modeling For Reconstructive Surgery Of The Hand., Inmo Yoon
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This research has been directed at studying and developing a prototype research and clinical Computer Aided Design (CAD) tool to be used for planning tendon paths in hand reconstructive surgery. Of equal importance is the goal of having an educational tool for teaching hand biomechanics to students of this specialty. The application of CAD to rehabilitative surgery of the hand is a new field of endeavor. There are currently no existing commercial products designed to assist the orthopedic surgeon in planning these complex procedures. Additionally, orthopedic surgeons are not trained in mechanics, kinematics, math modeling, or the use of computers. …
Changing Patterns Of Centralization And Decentralization In American School Governance., Charles Walter Triche Iii
Changing Patterns Of Centralization And Decentralization In American School Governance., Charles Walter Triche Iii
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation traces the evolution of American school governance and educational administration from the mid-seventeenth century through 1991. It examines the arguments which surround the centralization or decentralization debate and traces the rationale for the adoption of either a centralist or decentralist manner of school governance. In tracing the evolution of the rationale used by educational administrators for the adoption of either a centralist or decentralist form of governance, this dissertation establishes an order to the debate, traces shifts in philosophy, determines the dominance of either centralist or decentralist philosophy during each historical period studied, and identifies reasons why that …