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Urban Retail Food Marketing In Tegucigalpa, Honduras: A Case Study, Alex R. Zablah

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A 4,000 Year Pollen Record Of Vegetation Changes, Sea Level Rise, And Hurricane Disturbance In Atchafalaya March Of Southern Louisiana, Xinyu Zhou

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Sediment cores from the Atchafalaya Marsh in southern Louisiana were intensively studied by means of pollen and loss-on-ignition analyses to reconstruct the history of late-Holocene environmental changes and hurricane strikes in the area. The data indicate that the coring site was occupied by a fresh marsh about 4000 years ago. Afterwards, the fresh marsh was replaced by a brackish marsh in the following 400 years. The marsh became a salt marsh in response to sea level rise beginning 3250 yr BP. During 2800-1200 yr BP, the study site became an estuarine environment inundated by sea water as a result of …

Sociolinguistic Analysis Of First Person Singular Subject Pronouns In Cajun French, Ryan C. Perry

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The Two-Dimensional Ising Model: Mean-Field And Monte Carlo Results For Equilibrium And Nonequilibrium Transitions, Kevin Scott Brown

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Gender Conflicts And The Metaphor Of Race In The Novels Of George Eliot, Violet Lee Brown

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The Effects Of In Ovo Injection Of Ascorbic Acid On Chick Hatchability And Body Weight, Craig E. Deao

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Exact Real Computational Arithmetic Via Infinite Composition Of Mobiüs Transformations As Presented By Dr. Peter John Potts, Et Al., David Michael Robertson

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A Study Of Dante’S Paradiso: Canto 23, Amy Elizabeth Greenbaum

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Translation Theory, Olivia Johnston Bradley

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Accounting For Sample Selection Bias In Louisiana Hmo Satisfaction Studies, Travis Warziniack

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The Rhetoric Of Color-Blindness And Its Role In The Affirmative Action Debate, Sandra Falks

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Spatial Partitioning Of Hosts (Thomomys Bottae) By Parasitic Chewing Lice Of The Genera Geomydoecus And Thomomydoecus, Melanie Ann Babin

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Song Of Solomon And Go Down, Moses: Black Shame And White Guilt And Their Effects On Love, Amy Stewart

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Nucleic Acid Binding Characterization Of The Gar Domain Of Nucleolin, Adlah Sukkar

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Join In The Dance: Didacticism In Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice, Lisa Morales

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The importance of didacticism in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice may sometimes be overlooked in an effort to be entertained by the fairy-tale essence of her work. This is unfortunate since Pride and Prejudice offers a rich critique of eighteenth-century English society, as well as heralds the beginning of a new form of novel writing. This new form of novel writing includes a vision of an autonomous heroine who exercises freedom from patriarchal society and the “marriage market.” Austen’s ironic didacticism in Pride and Prejudice highlights hypocrisy and contradiction, and in so doing, mock social expectations. It is through her …

Synthesis Of Novel Amino Acids And 310- And Alpha-Helical Alpha, Alpha-Disubstituted Amino Acid Rich Antimicrobial Peptides, Thomas Scott Yokum

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Amphipathic peptides rich in α, α-disubstituted amino acids (ααAAs) were synthesized and examined for antimicrobial activity and helix preference in various solvent systems. Also, a series of polar, ααAAs were synthesized for incorporation into helical peptides and a red-shifted tryptophan analog was synthesized as a fluorescent probe.

A series of short, amphipathic, 3₁₀- and α-helical peptides containing 50 to 80 percent ααAAs was synthesized. Various combinations of 1-aminocyclohexane-lcarboxylic acid, α-aminoisobutyric acid, and 4-aminopiperidine-4-carboxylic acid were incorporated using preformed acid fluorides. In vitro testing revealed that most of these peptides show direct antibacterial activity against E. coli and …

The Novel And The Transformation Of History: Midnight’S Children, Allegory, And The Dialogical, Adam W. Ducote

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A Practical Study Of Starting A Business, Sean Eric Pfifer

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Ethics In Public Policy: Three Dilemmas Regarding Issues Of Death, April A. Erwin

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The Ins And Outs Of The Land Game: An Analysis Of The Status And Methods Of The Baton Rouge Real Estate Market, J Granger Harriss Iv

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Behold The Last Prophetess! Feminist Apocalypse In Mary Shelley’S The Last Man, Amy Louise Montz

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The Struggle To Endure And Prevail In The Sound And The Fury And As I Lay Dying, Jeff D. Nola

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St. Augustine’S Use Of Genesis 1 In His Conversion Account In Book 8 Of The Confessions, Kevin Kress

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Sand Body Geometry Of The Wax Lake Outlet Delta Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana, Susan Majersky Fitzgerald

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Deltas forming in Atchafalaya Bay, L-ouisiana, are the result of delta switching by the Mississippi River. The larger Lower Atchafalaya River delta has been heavily manipulated by dredging for navigation, but the Wax Lake Outlet delta is largely undisturbed and an excellent example of a 'bayhead' delta. Combining stratigraphy, aerial photography and digital terrain model data sets, the developmental history of this delta is presented. The Wax Lake Outlet delta is comprised of a typical upward-coarsening sequence, although its prodelta unit is extremely limited. Its plan-view form is typical of deltas developing in low-energy, unstratified, shallow basins. Early developmental processes …

Relationship Between Mode Of Death And Homicide Dump Sites, Aparanji Mirtipati

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Second Language Learning: Lexical Processing And Grammatical Development Of University Classroom Learners Of Spanish, Jessica T. Decuir

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Aspects Of Searching And Tunneling Behavior In Resource Utilization By The Formosan Subterranean Termite, Coptotermes Formosanus Shiraki., Justin Carl Hedlund

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Formosan subterranean termites, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae), were acclimated with different masses of pine or no wood (control) and then allowed access to a thin sand filled tunneling chamber. As available pine increased, termite survival and food consumption increased but search tunnel volume decreased. Increased food size resulted in termites excavating fewer exploratory tunnels due to decreases in secondary and tertiary branch tunnels. An increase in food size also decreased the total length of a search tunnel network, due to decreases in primary and secondary branch order lengths. Search tunnel networks had proportionally more length devoted to primary tunnels …

United States Foreign Policy And Media Coverage Of Uzbekistan: A Case Study., Mardon Nigmatovich Yakubov

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study reviews the impact of U.S. political interests on media coverage of Uzbekistan, a Central Asian republic which became independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union. A content analysis of coverage from 1991 to 1996 in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times was compared to American government documents and pronouncements on Uzbekistan. Striking similarities between U.S. policy towards Uzbekistan and the negative interpretation of events appearing in American newspapers were found. The democracy and human rights agendas advanced by U.S. officials apparently prompted editors and reporters to focus more on these subjects, while overlooking …

Effects Of Selected Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons On Cell Proliferation, Protein Phosphorylation, And Intracellular Calcium Concentration In Lepomis Macrochirus., Helen Runnels Connelly

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) have been demonstrated to affect signal transduction in higher vertebrates. In this research, the freshwater species of fish, Lepomis macrochirus (bluegill) was used to test the effects of a 14-day diet of PAH on lymphocyte signal transduction. PAH tested included: 2-aminoanthracene (2-AA), 2-methylnaphthalene (2-MN), 9,10-dimethylanthracene (9,10-DMA), and a mixture of these three compounds (MIX). Individual compounds were tested at a total PAH dose of 3.1 $\pm$ 0.01mg over the 14 day period. The MIX diet was a total PAH dose of 0.13 $\pm$ 0.01mg 2-AA, 0.19 + 0.01mg 9,10-DMA, and 0.22 $\pm$ 0.02mg 2-MN over the …

Urban Effects On Precipitation In The Southern United States Of America., Youngeun Choi

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Of the many weather conditions influenced by urban areas, precipitation is one of the most controversial and unsolved elements in characterizing the urban climate. The purpose of this dissertation was to identify anomalies in precipitation totals and frequencies due to urban effects and to evaluate whether certain meteorological conditions or seasons have more apparent effects. The five largest cities in the south-central United States were selected: Houston; Dallas; San Antonio; New Orleans; and Memphis. It was assumed that simple spatial analysis can detect urban effects on precipitation over and downwind of the city with a localized maximum. Trend surface analysis …