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Swan-Diving At The Milan Lounge, Jana Mackin
Swan-Diving At The Milan Lounge, Jana Mackin
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Hate Date, Mike Gemme
Hate Date, Mike Gemme
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This is a story about a man who revenge dates women for hire because he thinks women are only out to hurt men. Bryce has something of an allergic reaction anytime he tries to talk to a woman unless it is under a completely false pretense, in which case he is a woman's worst nightmare: A charming, handsome, heartbreaker. His world gets turned upside down when Bryce, despite his affliction, falls in love with a woman and must undergo painful subterfuge techniques just to be around her. Can a relationship built on pain, survive? Will Bryce give up what he …
Digital Dissection Of Radiographs, Using The Early Cretaceous Bird Confuciusornis And Photoshop Cs2tm, Sirelious White
Digital Dissection Of Radiographs, Using The Early Cretaceous Bird Confuciusornis And Photoshop Cs2tm, Sirelious White
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
In the past, radiographs (x-ray "shadowgraphs") have been used by paleontologists as ways to identify and capture bone images. Primarily, this was done to examine the skeletal elements without having to remove the surrounding matrix. Radiographs have so much three-dimensional information compressed onto a two-dimension image that it is often impossible to understand the entire skeleton. Obviously, it would be desirable to strip away the readily interpretable skeleton elements and examine those less well understood. An initial set of experiments were performed on a particular section of a radiograph of Confuciusornis sanctus, as a subject, while utilizing Photoshop CS2TM to …
The Garden Of Earthly Delights, Vol Ranger
The Garden Of Earthly Delights, Vol Ranger
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The Garden of Earthly Delights is a historical novel set in late 15th century Spain.
Detecting Routing Misbehavior In Mobile Ad Hoc Network, Kejun Liu
Detecting Routing Misbehavior In Mobile Ad Hoc Network, Kejun Liu
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Routing misbehavior in MANETs (Mobile Ad Hoc Networks) is studied in this thesis. In general, routing protocols for MANETs are designed based on the assumption that all par- ticipating nodes are fully cooperative. However, due to the open structure and scarcely available battery-based energy, node misbehaviors may exist. One such routing misbehavior is that some selfish nodes will participate in the route discovery and maintenance processes but refuse to forward data packets. Therefore, we propose the 2ACK scheme that serves as an add-on technique for routing schemes to detect routing misbehavior and to mitigate their adverse effect. The main idea …
Hoppin' Down The Bunny Trail: Behind The Banishment Of Walt Disney's Song Of The South In Search Of Uncle Remus, Michael Galiano
Hoppin' Down The Bunny Trail: Behind The Banishment Of Walt Disney's Song Of The South In Search Of Uncle Remus, Michael Galiano
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This study is an informative discussion on the history behind Walt Disney's film, Song of the South, based on the Uncle Remus tales originally written by Joel Chandler Harris, which will be addressed in Chapter One. Chapter Two elaborates on the methods within the vehicles of two distinct media versions in two different time periods as the problematic source of perception. Chapter Three relates why this is due to cultural sensitivities pertaining to the film and the suggested media guidelines by minority organizations that have gained power since the Civil Rights movement. Chapter Four discusses the historical data showing the …
Adult Education, James Wyatt
Adult Education, James Wyatt
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Land Loss: Attachment, Place And Identity In Coastal Louisiana, David Burley
Land Loss: Attachment, Place And Identity In Coastal Louisiana, David Burley
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation explores how people frame environmental change. Specifically, this work explores the identity loss that residents of coastal Louisiana experience due to coastal land loss. I rely on 126 in-depth interviews of residents from communities in six coastal parishes (counties). Respondents convey the meanings they give to land loss through constructing a narrative of place. A phenomenological approach is employed that focuses on how stories are told and the subjective interpretations of societal members. First, Louisiana's coastal communities hold a significant attachment to place that in many cases has been developing for close to three centuries. For most residents, …
An Analytic Image-Technology Inventory Of National Tourism Organizations (Ntos), Lung-Chiuan Chang
An Analytic Image-Technology Inventory Of National Tourism Organizations (Ntos), Lung-Chiuan Chang
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The Internet is playing an increasingly crucial role in destination marketing and it is used as a major marketing tool among National Tourism Organizations (NTOs). Website design is influential for consumers' Website preference and destination selection. This study is to understand the application of image-based technology by the major National Tourism Organizations (NTOs) through the collection and comparison of static images and dynamic images presented in their official tourism Websites. Data collected from the sampling of the world's top 25 tourism destination nations reveals that all National Tourism Organizations (NTOs) use either static images or dynamic images for their Websites, …
The Animal Lives Of People, Emily Dziuban
The Animal Lives Of People, Emily Dziuban
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Modern Foraminiferal Bio-Facies Within A Transgressive Saline Influenced Deltaic Headland, South-Central Louisiana, Chandra Dreher
Modern Foraminiferal Bio-Facies Within A Transgressive Saline Influenced Deltaic Headland, South-Central Louisiana, Chandra Dreher
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Incorporating improved preparation techniques, modern taxonomy, and quantitative analysis of environmental variables known to influence marsh foraminifers in other coastal regions refined marsh foraminiferal biofacies of the Mississippi delta region. Elevation, pore water salinity, total carbon, and mean grain size were compared with foraminiferal distributions in a transgressive marsh system of the lower Lafourche headland of the south-central delta plain. Cluster analysis aided definition of two biofacies, one from the marsh interior and one from the marsh edge. The marsh edge biofacies was further subdivided into levee crest and bayou margin biofacies. Correlation analysis suggested that seven of the 21 …
The Chicano Mural Movement Of The Southwest: Populist Public Art And Chicano Political Activism, John Kenny
The Chicano Mural Movement Of The Southwest: Populist Public Art And Chicano Political Activism, John Kenny
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This work examines an art movement that was a direct outgrowth of a populist civil rights movement of the late 1960’s in the Southwest United States. This art, the Chicano Murals created as part of el Movimiento in San Diego, California was intended primarily as a didactic communication medium to reach into the barrios and marginalized neighborhoods for the primary purpose of carrying a resistance message to the semiliterate mestizo population within. Its secondary purpose was to bring a message from within these minority neighborhoods outward to the privileged elite, both Anglo and Hispanic, that within the confines of the …
Fair Housing Goes Nuclear: In Suburban Chicago The Cold War Meets A Civil Rights Protest In 1967, Ryan Mattingly
Fair Housing Goes Nuclear: In Suburban Chicago The Cold War Meets A Civil Rights Protest In 1967, Ryan Mattingly
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
In December of 1966 the United States government decided to place a $375 million atomic accelerator in the all-white, rural town of Weston, Illinois. The small town was located 30 miles west of Chicago, within an affluent suburban county named DuPage. Residents of DuPage were thrilled to receive the atomic installation because it would spark new economic growth in the area. However, the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing (NCDH) immediately protested the approval of the Weston site. They opposed the site choice because of a documented history of racial housing discrimination in and around Weston. In 1967, the NCDH …
Fire & Flood: How The Lessons Of The Past Can Apply To The Present To Build The Future, Jared Munster
Fire & Flood: How The Lessons Of The Past Can Apply To The Present To Build The Future, Jared Munster
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
On August 29, 2005 the most destructive natural disaster to ever befall the United States made landfall initially near Buras, Louisiana and then ultimately near the mouth of the Pearl River. The associated storm surge caused New Orleans' protective levee system to fail, inundating the City with brackish floodwaters for weeks on end. This was not the first time the City of New Orleans was crippled by disaster. In 1788 and 1794, the city suffered two major fires; the first burning 856 buildings and the second 212. These were significant losses in a city that had a building stock of …
Anthony Eden, The Egypt Committee, And The Politics Of Prestige During The Suez Crisis, Alexander Shelby
Anthony Eden, The Egypt Committee, And The Politics Of Prestige During The Suez Crisis, Alexander Shelby
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The impact of the Gamal Abdul Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal on Anthony Eden's policy making during the Suez Crisis is the bases of this research. Using data from the Cabinet records of Eden's Egypt Committee, this research will demonstrate that Eden and the Egypt Committee acted irrationally during the Suez Crisis and by doing so created a schism in the Atlantic Alliance. This rift would force President Dwight Eisenhower to side with the Soviet Union against Britain to resolve the conflict. The effects of the crisis caused the British to lose their prestige as a world power and …
Identification And Characterization Of A New Class Of Bilin Lyases In Synechococcus Sp. Pcc 7002, Nicolle Saunée
Identification And Characterization Of A New Class Of Bilin Lyases In Synechococcus Sp. Pcc 7002, Nicolle Saunée
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The goal of this research is to identify and characterize the enzymes (lyases) responsible for chromophore (bilin) attachment to phycobiliproteins (light harvesting) in cyanobacteria. Candidates for these lyases were first identified in Fremyella diplosiphon as cpeS and cpeT. In Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002, there are three cpeS-like genes (named cpcS, cpcU, and cpcV) and one cpeT-like gene (named cpcT). These genes were cloned, overexpressed, and purified from E. coli. The CpcS and CpcU proteins form a 1:1 complex and catalyze the addition of phycocyanobilin (PCB) to â-82 cysteinyl residue on phycocyanin (PC) in vitro. Tryptic digestion and C18 RP-HPLC confirmed …
Which Events Constitute Criteria A1 Of Ptsd? The Phenomenology Of Psychological Trauma In Youth, Leslie Katherine Taylor
Which Events Constitute Criteria A1 Of Ptsd? The Phenomenology Of Psychological Trauma In Youth, Leslie Katherine Taylor
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The aim of this study was to explore the phenomenology of psychological trauma in youth. It was hypothesized that events reported as traumatic could be classified into one of seventeen trauma categories, that levels of impairment in traumatized youth would be higher than levels of impairment in non-traumatized youth, and that traumatic events reported would be differentially related to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms and types of cognitive errors. Information regarding traumas and PTSD symptoms was collected through The Child PTSD Checklist from a sample of youth aged 6 to 17. A coding system was developed for classification of traumatic …
Analysis Of Two Neighboring Miocene Paleo-Turbidite Systems In A Complex Deep-Water Environment: Implications For Biostratigraphic Techniques Used In Gulf Of Mexico Petroleum Exploration Studies, Andrew Tipton
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Biostratigraphic techniques are commonly used in shallow environments of the Gulf of Mexico basin for depositional history modeling in petroleum exploration applications. Extending these interpretations to deep-water settings, where the structural and depositional history is more complex, is problematic. A localized study area was used for a case-analysis of a typically complex deep-water study area. A dataset of seismic, well-log, and biostratigraphic information was used to: (a) assess accuracy of the biostratigraphic interpretations produced by Fillon (2005), (b) determine specific pitfalls of micropaleontology as a tool in this environment, and (c) provide guidelines for the application of biostratigraphic data in …
A Study Of Conditional Volatilities In Financial Markets Using Generalized Conditional Heteroscedasticity Jump Models, Babatunde Olatunji Odusami
A Study Of Conditional Volatilities In Financial Markets Using Generalized Conditional Heteroscedasticity Jump Models, Babatunde Olatunji Odusami
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
In this manuscript, I investigate the time-varying volatilities and co-volatilities in the fixed income and equities market using jump augmented stochastic volatility models. The results highlights that the fact that jumps are inherent in financial markets and have implications for the dynamics of volatilities and co-volatilities of financial assets over time. Jump augmented models provide a superior description of instantaneous market conditions and a promising avenue for future research in areas of asset pricing, portfolio selection, and risk management.
Development Of An Image Noise Estimation Method And A Sub-Imaging Based Wiener Method, Eric F. Smith
Development Of An Image Noise Estimation Method And A Sub-Imaging Based Wiener Method, Eric F. Smith
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This research consists of three parts. The first part is an investigation of several popular image restoration techniques. The techniques are used to restore 2-D image data, f(x, y), that has been blurred by a known point spread function (PSF), b(x, y) and corrupted by an unknown amount of noise, n(x, y). Several sample images are restored using all of the techniques. Of the methods investigated the one which produces the best restoration results was determined to be the Wiener deconvolution method. The determination of the best method is based on the quality of the restored image and the required …
Bloom Filters For Filesystem Forensics, Rachel Bourg
Bloom Filters For Filesystem Forensics, Rachel Bourg
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Digital forensics investigations become more time consuming as the amount of data to be investigated grows. Secular growth trends between hard drive and memory capacity just exacerbate the problem. Bloom filters are space-efficient, probabilistic data structures that can represent data sets with quantifiable false positive rates that have the potential to alleviate the problem by reducing space requirements. We provide a framework using Bloom filters to allow fine-grained content identification to detect similarity, instead of equality. We also provide a method to compare filters directly and a statistical means of interpreting the results. We developed a tool--md5bloom--that uses Bloom filters …
(Re)Building Cultural, Community, And Academic Identity: Freshman Composition After Katrina, Russo Celeste Del
(Re)Building Cultural, Community, And Academic Identity: Freshman Composition After Katrina, Russo Celeste Del
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Composition studies has become increasingly focused on the connection between place, identity, and the act of writing, maintaining, as theorist Nedra Reynolds states, that “where writing instruction takes place has everything to do with how†(20). Considering the social, political, and cultural contexts of a post-Katrina Southeastern Louisiana, administrators and instructors at the University of New Orleans must begin to question how our freshmen writing program can best serve our students as they enter into the future of a "new" New Orleans. Implementing a "localized pedagogy" into the freshmen composition classroom--that is, a community-based pedagogy that draws from local resources, …
Möbius: For Orchestra , Anthony Dominic-Paul Cipolone
Möbius: For Orchestra , Anthony Dominic-Paul Cipolone
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Möbius: for Orchestra attempts to explore an alternative use of the material that typically appears in the development section of a piece composed in sonata form. By using the modified themes in the recapitulation rather than disregarding them entirely, the A-B-A' form of the basic sonata becomes more of an A-B-(A'+B'). Much like the mathematical function this piece is named after – a loop whose ending is never identical to its beginning and whose mirror-image lacks symmetry – the listener is brought to a new ending with familiar, non-repeated material. Many times throughout the piece, the listener will hear up …
"The Goose That Lays The Golden Egg"?: The "Bio-Med" Industries Of New Orleans , Robert Habans
"The Goose That Lays The Golden Egg"?: The "Bio-Med" Industries Of New Orleans , Robert Habans
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This thesis addresses New Orleans' "Bio-Med" sector, a broad category that includes biosciences research, health care, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing. Biotechnology, in particular, has emerged as an attractive target for economic development in New Orleans, in Louisiana, and in the nation as a whole. Informed by economic geography and development literature, this research presents a narrative of efforts to foster the Bio-Med industries in New Orleans as a source of economic diversification and employment. Structural economic conditions, as well as a complex and unsettled array of political agendas shaping Bio-Med institutions, underscore a pessimistic view of the …
Some Novice Methods For Software Protection With Obfuscation, Saikrishna Aravalli
Some Novice Methods For Software Protection With Obfuscation, Saikrishna Aravalli
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Previously software is distributed to the users by using devices like CD.S and floppies and in the form of bytes. Due to the high usage of internet and in order to perform the tasks rapidly without wasting time on depending physical devices, software is supplied through internet in the form of source code itself. Since source code is available to the end users there is a possibility of changing the source code by malicious users in order to gain their personnel benefits which automatically leads to malfunctioning of the software. The method proposed in this thesis is based on the …
Angle Resolved Photoemission Study Of Epitaxial Chromium Dioxide Films, Daniel Borst
Angle Resolved Photoemission Study Of Epitaxial Chromium Dioxide Films, Daniel Borst
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Chromium dioxide is predicted to be a half-metallic oxide. The electronic properties of the surface region of CrO2 have been studied by performing angle-resolved ultra-violet photoelectron spectroscopy (ARUPS) measurements on epitaxial CrO2 films. The CrO2 thin films were deposited on (100) and (110) – oriented TiO2 substrates by chemical vapor deposition. Previous measurements of the transport properties of devices made from epitaxial CrO2 films have shown very little spin polarization. Possible sources of this low yield are a surface Cr2O3 phase and/or surface contamination. The effects of sputtering the CrO2 films to remove the outer layer of Cr2O3 and any …
Bathtub Grottos, Leeandra Nolting
Bathtub Grottos, Leeandra Nolting
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Novel Synthetic Routes To Formation Of Magnetic Nanocomposites, Anindya Pradhan
Novel Synthetic Routes To Formation Of Magnetic Nanocomposites, Anindya Pradhan
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Novel synthetic routes to formation of gold-magnetite nanoparticles have been designed by sonochemistry. Treatment of preformed magnetite nanoparticles with ultrasound in aqueous media with dissolved tetrachloroauric acid resulted in the formation of gold-magnetite nanocomposite materials. These materials maintained the morphology of the original magnetite particles. The morphology of the gold particles could be controlled by adjusting experimental parameters, including the addition of small amounts of solvent modifiers such as methanol, diethylene glycol, and oleic acid. Further experiments were conducted with silver and titanium. Morphology and properties of nanocomposites were analyzed by transmission electron microscope (TEM), energy dispersive spectra (EDS), superconducting …
Voice Lessons, Lisa Shillingburg
Voice Lessons, Lisa Shillingburg
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
An Empirical Analysis Of Commercial Bank Profitability In Financially Liberalized Markets, James Nguyen
An Empirical Analysis Of Commercial Bank Profitability In Financially Liberalized Markets, James Nguyen
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Chapter 1 of the dissertation investigates the determinants of bank interest margin (NIM) and noninterest income (NII) using a system estimation approach for all commercial banks in a group of 28 financially liberalized countries during the period between 1997 and 2004. The empirical results generally suggest that NIM is directly influenced by operating costs, risk aversion, credit risk, the interaction between interest rate risk and bank risk, bank size, volume of credit, and NII. NIM is negatively related to interest rate risk and capital adequacy. NII is found to correlate positively with NIM, total assets, credit risk, liquidity risk, overhead …