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F02rs Sgb No. 1 (Budget), Broussard

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To budget the funds of Student Government for the fiscal year 2002-2003; to appropriate funds for activities, projects, and programs of Student Government; to appropriate grants to certain student groups and organizations; according to the Constitution and by-laws.

F02rs Sgb No. 4 (Svga), Wainwright, Schultz, Gipson

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To appropriate five-hundred eight-six ($586) dollars to the student video game alliance (SVGA) to defray the cost of bringing in guest lecturer Kudo Tsunoda.

F02rs Sgb No. 8 (Roo), Ducote, Nolen

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To amend Chapter 5 of the LSU A&M Student Senate Rules of Order to include ex-officio Academic Committee representation of the Honors College.

F02rs Sgb No. 6 (Amend Budget), Busada

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

Amending SGB No. 1 of the 2002-2003 legislative session as relates to the salaries of the College Council Liaison and the Director of International Affairs.

F02rs Sgb No. 7 (Hispanic Engineers), Cotton, Lambert

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To appropriate Three Thousand ($3,000) dollars to the Society of Hispanic Engineers to help defray the cost of attending the “Hispanic Engineer National achievement awards Conference” to be held on Thursday through Sunday, October 17-20, 2002 In South Padre Island, Texas.

F02rs Sgb No. 11 (Asla), Ducote

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

to appropriate six hundred dollars ($600) to the American Society of landscape architects (ASLA) to defryay the lodging cost at the ASLA Annual meeting and Expo to be held October 17^th -22^nd 2002 in San Jose, California.

F02rs Sgb No. 10 (Block & Bridle), Heltz, Busada

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To appropriate one thousand four-hundred and eight ($1,348) dollars to the block & bridle club to defray the cost of putting on the all student rodeo in the John M. Parker Coliseum november 7-9, 2002

F02rs Sgb No. 14 (Ffa), Heltz

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To appropriate four hundred dollars ($400) to the Collegiate FFA Chapter to defray the cost of attending the National Agriculture Education Conference (NAEC) and Alpha Tau Alpha (ATA) Conclave, held in Louisville, Kentucky on October 30 through November 2, 2002.

F02rs Sgb No. 12 (Spectrum Alliance), Wells

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

to appropriate One-Thousand Five Hundred Fifty Four Dollars ($1,554) to the Spectrum Alliance to help defray the registration and lodging cost to attend the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) “Creating Change Conference,” to be held in Portland, Oregon from Wednesday, November 6 through Sunday November 10, 2002.

F02rs Sgb No. 13 (Honors College), Hayter

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To appropriate Eight Hundred Twenty-Three Dollars ($823.00) to the Honors College Advocates to help defray the cost of attending the Thirty Seventh Annual National Collegiate Honors Council Convention to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from Wednesday, October 30 through Sunday, November 3, 2002.

F02rs Sgb No. 15 (Equestrian Team), Nolen

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To appropriate one thousand three hundred forty eight dollars ($1,348) to the Equestrian Team at LSU to help defray the cost of attending the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) horse show at West Texas A&M in Amarillo, Texas on February 7-10, 2003

F02rs Sgr No. 4 (Horticulture), Fisher, Heltz

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

to reaffirm the permanent location of the Horticulture Hill Farm Teaching Facility on the LSU A&M Campus, by demanding that it remain at its present location immediately west of the Lod Cook Conference Center, and to call for specific action to be taken as it concerns LSU’s Master Plan

F02rs Sgr No. 8 (Classes), Wesley

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

No abstract provided.

F02rs Sgr No. 9 (Grade Dist), Wells, Nolen

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To recommend to the LSU faculty and administration that grading distributions be made publicly accessible via the Louisiana State University website.

Lumières, Fall 2002, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

Friends of the LSU Libraries

The bi-annual newsletters from the Friends of the Library contain information about upcoming and recent events, descriptions of new collections, a list of members, and occasional obituaries, which inform members of the news and needs of the LSU Libraries.

Louisiana Agriculture Fall, 2002, Lsu Agcenter

Louisiana Agriculture

No abstract provided.

Atpase Activity Of The Msba Lipid Flippase Of Escherichia Coli, William T. Doerrler, Christian R.H. Raetz

Faculty Publications

Escherichia coli MsbA, the proposed inner membrane lipid flippase, is an essential ATP-binding cassette transporter protein with homology to mammalian multidrug resistance proteins. Depletion or loss of function of MsbA results in the accumulation of lipopolysaccharide and phospholipids in the inner membrane of E. coli. MsbA modified with an N-terminal hexahistidine tag was overexpressed, solubilized with a nonionic detergent, and purified by nickel affinity chromatography to ∼95% purity. The ATPase activity of the purified protein was stimulated by phospholipids. When reconstituted into liposomes prepared from E. coli phospholipids, MsbA displayed an apparent Km of 878 μM and a Vmax of …

The Distant Type Ia Supernova Rate, R. Pain, S. Fabbro, M. Sullivan, R. S. Ellis, G. Aldering, P. Astier, S. E. Deustua, A. S. Fruchter, G. Goldhaber, A. Goobar, D. E. Groom, D. Hardin, I. M. Hook, D. A. Howell, M. J. Irwin, A. G. Kim, M. Y. Kim, R. A. Knop, J. C. Lee, C. Lidman, R. G. Mcmahon, P. E. Nugent, N. Panagia, C. R. Pennypacker, S. Perlmutter, P. Ruiz-Lapuente, K. Schahmaneche, B. Schaefer, N. A. Walton

Faculty Publications

We present a measurement of the rate of distant Type la supernovae derived using four large subsets of data from the Supernova Cosmology Project. Within this fiducial sample, which surveyed about 12 deg2, 38 supernovae were detected at redshifts 0.25-0.85. In a spatially flat cosmological model consistent with the results obtained by the Supernova Cosmology Project, we derive a rest-frame Type la supernova rate at a mean redshift z ≃ 0.55 of 1.53-0.25-0.31-0.28-0.32 × 10-4 h 3 Mpc-3 yr-1 or 0.58-0.09-0.09-0.10-0.10 h2 SNu (1 SNu = 1 supernova per century per 1010 LB⊙), where the first uncertainty is statistical and …

The Nature Of Interchain Excitations In Conjugated Polymers: Spatially-Varying Interfacial Solvatochromism Of Annealed Meh-Ppv Films Studied By Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy (Nsom), Richard D. Schaller, Lynn F. Lee, Justin C. Johnson, Louis H. Haber, Richard J. Saykally, John Vieceli, Ilan Benjamin, Thuc Quyen Nguyen, Benjamin J. Schwartz

Faculty Publications

The nature of interchain excitations in conjugated polymers was discussed. The spatially-varying solvatochromism of annealed poly(2-methoxy-5-(2′-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylene vinylene) (MEH-PPV) films were studied by near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM). The solvatochromic spectral shifts of the interfacial luminescence were measured as a function of solvent polarity. The results were analyzed with an interfacial dielectric continuum model to determine the dipole moment of emissive excited states.

Little Qualitative Rna Misexpression In Sterile Male F1 Hybrids Of Drosophila Pseudoobscura And D. Persimilis, Jane Reiland, Mohamed A.F. Noor

Faculty Publications

Background: Although the genetics of hybrid sterility has been the subject of evolutionary studies for over sixty years, no one has shown the reason(s) why alleles that operate normally within species fail to function in another genetic background. Several lines of evidence suggest that failures in normal gene transcription contribute to hybrid dysfunctions, but genome-wide studies of gene expression in pure-species and hybrids have not been undertaken. Here, we study genome-wide patterns of expression in Drosophila pseudoobscura, D. persimilis, and their sterile F1 hybrid males using differential display. Results: Over five thousand amplifications were analyzed, and 3312 were present in …

Local Systems On Nilpotent Orbits And Weighted Dynkin Diagrams, Pramod N. Achar, Eric N. Sommers

Faculty Publications

We study the Lusztig-Vogan bijection for the case of a local system. We compute the bijection explicitly in type A for a local system and then show that the dominant weights obtained for different local systems on the same orbit are related in a manner made precise in the paper. We also give a conjecture (putatively valid for all groups) detailing how the weighted Dynkin diagram for a nilpotent orbit in the dual Lie algebra should arise under the bijection. © 2002 American Mathematical Society.

Faculty Senate Resolution 03-03, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Faculty Senate Resolution on the disproportionate salary increase of the Chancellor, adopted on September 3, 2002.

Non-Semisimple Hopf Algebras Of Dimension P2, Siu Hung Ng

Faculty Publications

Let H be, finite-dimensional Hopf algebra with antipode S of dimension pq over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0, where p ≤ q are odd primes. If H is not semisimple, then the order of S4 is p, and Tr(S2p) is an integer divisible by p2. In particular, if dim H = p2, we prove that H is isomorphic to a Taft algebra. This completes the classification for the Hopf algebras of dimension p2. © 2002 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.

Su(3) Versus Deformed Hartree-Fock State, Calvin W. Johnson, Ionel Stetcu, J. P. Draayer

Faculty Publications

Deformation is fundamental to understanding nuclear structure. We compare two ways to efficiently realize deformation for many-fermion wave functions, the leading SU(3) irreducible representation and the angularmomentum-projected Hartree-Fock state. In the absence of single-particle spin-orbit splitting the two are nearly identical. With realistic forces, however, the difference between the two is nontrivial, with the angular-momentum-projected Hartree-Fock state better approximating an "exact" wave function calculated in the fully interacting shell model. The difference is driven almost entirely by the single-particle spin-orbit splitting.

Alteration Of Oriented Deposition Of Cellulose Microfibrils By Mutation Of A Katanin-Like Microtubule-Severing Protein, David H. Burk, Zheng Hua Ye

Faculty Publications

It has long been hypothesized that cortical microtubules (MTs) control the orientation of cellulose microfibril deposition, but no mutants with alterations of MT orientation have been shown to affect this process. We have shown previously that in Arabidopsis, the fra2 mutation causes aberrant cortical MT orientation and reduced cell elongation, and the gene responsible for the fra2 mutation encodes a katanin-like protein. In this study, using field emission scanning electron microscopy, we found that the fra2 mutation altered the normal orientation of cellulose microfibrils in walls of expanding cells. Although cellulose microfibrils in walls of wild-type cells were oriented transversely …

Late-Season Insect Pests Of Soybean In Louisiana: Preventive Management And Yield Enhancement (Bulletin #880), Melissa W. Willrich, David J. Boethel, B. Rogers Leonard, David C. Blouin

LSU AgCenter Bulletins

The velvetbean caterpillar and the soybean looper are important pests of soybeans in Louisiana. These late-season soybean insect pests create the need for the continuous development of insecticide programs that are cost effective, maintain profitable yields and conserve natural enemies.

Comparative Proteome Analysis Of Brucella Melitensis Vaccine Strain Rev 1 And A Virulent Strain, 16m, Michel Eschenbrenner, Mary Ann Wagner, Troy A. Horn, Jo Ann Kraycer, Cesar V. Mujer, Sue Hagius, Philip Elzer, Vito G. Delvecchio

Faculty Publications

The genus Brucella consists of bacterial pathogens that cause brucellosis, a major zoonotic disease characterized by undulant fever and neurological disorders in humans. Among the different Brucella species, Brucella melitensis is considered the most virulent. Despite successful use in animals, the vaccine strains remain infectious for humans. To understand the mechanism of virulence in B. melitensis, the proteome of vaccine strain Rev 1 was analyzed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and compared to that of virulent strain 16M. The two strains were grown under identical laboratory conditions. Computer-assisted analysis of the two B. melitensis proteomes revealed proteins expressed in either 16M …

A Single Grand Victory: The First Campaign And Battle Of Manassas, Stacy D. Allen

Civil War Book Review

First blood

Comprehensive study investigates climactic battle

All Is Fair? Lonnie R. Speer Shatters Myths With Tales Of Mistreated Pows, Leah Wood Jewett

Civil War Book Review

Lonnie R. Speer is a historian and lecturer whose expertise lies in the history of Civil War prisons and prisoners of war. He is the author of Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War (Stackpole Books,1997). His latest book, War of Vengeance: Acts of Retaliation on POWs in t....

Marly Youmans Discusses Her Novel, 'The Wolf Pit', Leah Wood Jewett

Civil War Book Review

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