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Love And Rebellion: Louisiana Women Novelists, 1865-1919 (Wetmore)., Susan Millar Williams

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation is a study of minor Louisiana women novelists from the end of the Civil War to the passage of women's suffrage. A large number of Louisiana women were spurred to write novels by the war and Reconstruction, motivated by both financial considerations and the need to explain their lives. They use conventional forms, like the plantation romance, but the stories they tell suggest that women were ambivalent about Southern traditions and the old order. In breaking down the social codes which both protected and repressed Louisiana women, the Civil War and the Reconstruction led Louisiana women novelists to …

The Teaching Ability, Job Performance, And Attitudes Of Vocational Agricultural Teachers Who Received Their Undergraduate Degrees In Selected Land-Grant And Nonland-Grant Universities In The United States (Program Evaluation, Effectiveness)., Chigozie Cyril Asiabaka

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The study focused on the teaching ability, job performance, and attitudes of vocational agriculture teachers who received their undergraduate degrees from selected land-grant and nonland-grant universities. Objective of the Study. The purpose of this study was to compare the teaching ability, job performance, and attitudes of vocational agriculture teachers who received their undergraduate degrees from selected land-grant and nonland-grant universities during the 1981-82 school year in the United States. Methodology. A list of the vocational agriculture teachers who graduated from land-grant and nonland-grant universities in the 1981-82 school year was requested from 37 universities in ten states that have both …

A Comparison Of Two Developmental Models Of Concept Learning., Roberta Naomi Chinn

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Recent research has identified changes in the strategies used and the shape of learning curves of children learning concepts as a function of developmental level. Two recent models have been proposed to explain these changes. One model views these changes as an improvement of hypothesis-testing strategies. The other model views these changes as a switchover from reliance on one type of learning process to a second type of learning process. The present study compared the two models with respect to the strategies used and the shape of the learning curves of four grade levels of subjects. One hundred twenty-nine children …

Typicality And Familiarity Effects In Children's Memory: The Interaction Of Processing And The Knowledge Base., Gary Todd Rosenthal

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Third- and sixth-graders and adults participated in an experiment based upon Hunt and Einstein's (1981) theory which relates study activities or processing task to subsequent memory performance. Participants performed a processing task designed to emphasize either relational or item-specific information. In addition, the information about the words available in each subject's knowledge base was measured in two ways: relational information was assessed with a typicality rating task and item-specific information was assessed with an attribute listing task. The experiment consisted of three phases. In the first phase subjects performed one of two processing tasks on a list containing typical, atypical …

The Design And Evaluation Of An Integrating Monitoring Device For Ozone Using 10,10'-Dimethyl-9,9'-Biacridylidene., Marion Rene Surgi

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A unique film badge design in which a reagent 10,10'-dimethyl-9,9'-biacridylidene (DBA) is dissolved homogeneously in a gas-permeable, silicone-polycarbonate copolymer film, was evaluated. The ambient concentration of ozone can be determined from its reaction with DBA. The disappearance of DBA upon ozonolysis can be monitored at 4300 (ANGSTROM) without extraction or desorption from the polymer membrane. Unlike other reagents for ozone determination, DBA is specific for ozone. Interferences from nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide are less than 1%. Prior to this experimental work, a mathematical diffusion model was developed to predict the response of such a device to a given pollutant …

Mechanical And Chemical Conditioning As An Aid In Hastening Drying Rate Of Ryegrass Forage., Marcel Tsang Mui Chung

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Laboratory tests were conducted to evaluate four types of mechanical, two types of chemical and combinations of mechanical-chemical conditioning treatments on drying rate and quality of ryegrass forage. Mechanical treatments ranged from cuticle abrasion to crushing of the stems while the chemicals were expected to remove or disrupt epicuticular waxes. The statistical design was a randomized block with two observations per cell. Analysis of variance results yielded highly significant block-treatment interaction for all variables examined. Two types of drying pattern were indicated. For treatments restricted to the plant surface as caused by the brushes and chemicals, the drying pattern was …

Job Satisfaction Of Vocational Agriculture Teachers In The Southeastern United States., Abdul Patah Bin Abdul Malek

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Job satisfaction of vocational agriculture teachers in the Southeastern United States was examined. A total of 355 teachers from seven states--Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Virginia, Arkansas, and North Carolina--responded to the survey. Job satisfaction was measured by the Job Descriptive Index (JDI) which had six scales--work on present job, present pay, opportunities for promotion, supervision on present job, people on the job, and job in general. Fourteen demographic variables selected to be used as independent variables were age, highest degree completed, current annual salary, years of teaching experience, number of months employed per year, average number of students per class, …

Menstrual Cycle Influences On Acute Alcohol Intoxication (Estradiol, Progesterone, Blood Alcohol Level)., Alan Russell King

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Recent studies suggest that the course of acute alcohol intoxication fluctuates as a function of the menstrual cycle. Attenuated behavioral effects of alcohol at descending, as opposed to corresponding ascending, phases of elimination and absorption further suggest that acute alcohol tolerance develops over the course of intoxication. The present study was designed to examine the course of acute alcohol intoxication at different points within the menstrual cycle and to analyze relationships among sex hormone levels and blood alcohol dependent measures. Acute alcohol absorption and elimination was investigated in 12 adult, normally cycling women administered a moderate dose (0.66 ml/kg) of …

Deoxyribonucleic Acid Base Compositions, And Homology Of 'Microcyclus', Spirosoma, And Similar Organisms, J. M. Larkin, R. Borrall

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Cenobium 1984, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College, School Of Veterinary Medicine, Marilyn Moore

Cenobium Yearbook

Cenobium began publication in 1977 and continued through 1990. Produced by students, the yearbooks are a chronicle of the daily life and the special events experienced by veterinary students at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine.

Summary Of Varietal Trials With Warm-Season Perennial Grasses In Louisiana, 1970-82, W R. Odson

LSU Agricultural Experiment Station Reports

No abstract provided.

Activation Of Jird (Meriones Unguiculatus) Macrophages By The Filarial Parasite Brugia Pahangi, G. W. Jeffers, T. R. Klei, F. M. Enright

Faculty Publications

Peritoneal macrophages from Mongolian jirds (Meriones unguiculatus) with either lymphatic or intraperitoneal infections of Brugia pahangi wre studied to determine the effects of infection on macrophage function and morphology. Macrophages were collected at 40, 90, 140, and 200 days after inoculation of infective third-stage larvae and assayed for phagocytic and bactericidal activity by the acridine orange method and for morphological changes by light and electron microscopy. Significant increases in phagocytic and microbicidal activity (P ≤ 0.01) were observed in peritoneal macrophages collected from jirds with intraperitoneal infections when compared with peritoneal macrophages from jirds with lymphatic infections and resident peritoneal …

Effects Of In Vivo Administration Of Testosterone Propionate On In Vitro Production Of Follicle-Stimulating Hormone And Luteinizing Hormone By Pituitaries Of Pony Mares, S. I. Reville-Moroz, D. L. Thompson, L. F. Archbald, L. M. Olsen

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Louisiana Agriculture Magazine, Winter 1984-1985, Lsu Agricultural Experiment Station

Louisiana Agriculture

No abstract provided.

Lsu General Catalog 1984-1985, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

LSU General Catalog

The LSU General Catalog describes all undergraduate and graduate departments and programs with degree requirements and courses offered for each one. The General Catalog includes information on registration and financial aid as well as academic services offered to all students.

The Critical Connection: A Computer-Assisted Rhetorical Criticism Of The Message Of Harry F. Chapin., Ronald Robert Capps

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

In this study I examine the forms, contents, and functions of the rhetoric of singer-songwriter Harry Forster Chapin, in an attempt to more fully understand rhetorical theorist Kenneth Burke's assertion that his grandson was a uniquely powerful rhetorical figure who "could energize people, everyone, the world.". This study was conceived from the perspective of the "New Rhetoric," and therefore, it acknowledges that "identification" may serve as an "end" in itself. It is this willingness to accept "identification" as an "end" in itself that separates contemporary rhetorical theory from its classical counterpart. In my effort to remain faithful to Chapin's lyrics, …

Interactions Of Soybean Arthropods And Crop Weeds: Diversity, Moth Nutrition, And Stability (Foraging Behavior, Nectar Analysis, Lepidopterous)., Fred Lewis Collins

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Weeds which occur in crop ecosystems may cause suppressive or stimulating effects on arthropod abundance. Yet, little is known about the weed-insect interactions in Louisiana soybean. A three-part study was conducted from 1980-1983 to measure the abundance of arthropods in soybean, Glycine max Merr., as affected by the presence of absence of various weeds. A survey of arthropod abundance was conducted in commercial soybean fields which were either weedy or weed-free in central and south central Louisiana during 1980. Weedy fields had greater abundance of spiders, Geocoris punctipes (Say), and Lebia analis Dejean. Late instar green cloverworm, Anticarsia gemmatalis Hubner, …

A Rhetorical Study Of Winthrop Rockefeller's Political Speeches, 1964-1971 (Arkansas)., Merrill Anway Jones

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to analyze rhetorically the political speeches of Winthrop Rockefeller, 1964-1971. Criteria for the study were determined by the theories of Lloyd Bitzer, Ernest Bormann and Kenneth Burke, which as a whole, interrelated to give full understanding of Rockefeller's phenomenal political rise in Arkansas. Examined were the political conditions in Arkansas prior to Rockefeller's emergence as the Republican Party leader in 1964. Application of Bitzer's situational theory revealed that the controlling exigence, the lack of a two-party system, was the direct cause of other exigences such as poor racial conditions, poor educational standards, poor economic …

Oviposition Of Psorophora Columbiae (Dyar And Knab) In Louisiana Pastureland., Dwight Charles Williams

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Cattle hoofprint samples from a permanent pasture in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana during 1980 yielded an average of 9.2 eggs and capsules of Psorophora columbiae (Dyar and Knab)/hoofprint. Pasture sections differed significantly (P < .0001) in number of eggs and capsules/hoofprint. Sections ranged from 2.7 to 20.6 eggs and capsules/hoofprint. The number of eggs and capsules collected/date also differed significantly (P < .01), but peaks in numbers did not always correspond with peaks in rainfall or adult mosquito collections. Hoofprint densities and herd movement did not influence egg distribution. Estimates of numbers of eggs and capsules on the 30 ha permanent pasture range from 2,633,621 in late February to 16,913,025 on June 2, 1980. Mosquito oviposition was compared in hoofprint samples taken from a permanent pasture and a fallow rice field in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana during 1981. Hoofprints from the permanent pasture contained significantly (P < .001) more Ps. columbiae eggs than did hoofprints from the fallow rice field, averaging 3.3 and 1.9 eggs/hoofprint respectively. However, estimates of egg density in the 2 sites did not differ significantly (P > .05) since hoofprint density was greater in the fallow rice field. Egg density estimates were 15.2/m('2) for the fallow rice field and 13.3/m('2) for the permanent pasture. Hoofprint depth, hoofprint location, and cattle movement did not influence egg distribution. Results of studies with caged Ps. columbiae exposed to natural lighting conditions indicated that the oviposition cycle was bimodal with the main peak occurring in the 2 h period …

The Ethno-Archaeology Of The Houma Indians, Bryan L. Guevin

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The focus of this research is comprised of two objectives. The first attempts to ethno-historically reconstruct the early historic culture of the Houma Indians of Louisiana based upon seventeenth and eighteenth century archival and documentary sources with attention being paid to such ethnographic aspects as Houma subsistence, social organization, and ceremonialism. The second objective, by way of utilizing additional historical documentation such as early cartographic evidence, predicts and locates historic Houma village sites. An archaeological examination and discussion of these sites is presented in terms of an attempt to diagnostically identify broad ethnic markers within the historic Houma material culture.

Louisiana Agriculture Magazine, Fall 1983, Lsu Agricultural Experiment Station

Louisiana Agriculture

No abstract provided.

Systematics Of The Water Snakes Of The Nerodia Cyclopion Complex, William Edward Sanderson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The taxonomic status of the green water snake, Nerodia cyclopion, is re-evaluated. The two recognized subspecies are compared by using a variety of standard morphological characters, and significant differences are noted. Discriminant analysis of head-scale measurements provides highly significant separation of the two taxa. Examination of specimens from the zone of parapatry reveals no evidence of recent gene flow between the taxa. Based on these morphological data, plus the biochemical and ecological data of other workers, I suggest that the subspecies be recognized as full species, Nerodia eyelopion and Nerodia floridana.

Where Did The Bayogoula Dance; Why Do They Sing No More: A Reexamination Of The Archaeology Of The Bayou Goula Area, Iberville Parish, Louisiana, Glen G. Fredlund

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Two objectives are undertaken. The first is the identity of the two 18th century archaeological sites at Bayou Goula. A reexamination of the ethnohistorical and -archaeological records of the area reveals that the Bayou Goula site traditionally accepted as an aboriginal village is actually the site of an early French settlement. A second archaeological site recently discovered is hypothesized to be the 1699 village of the Bayogoula and Mugulasha.

The second objective was a methodological study of aboriginal ceramics from this recently discovered site. The type-variety system is rejected in favor of an attribute or "modal" analysis in evaluating competing …

Louisiana Agriculture Magazine, Summer 1983, Lsu Agricultural Experiment Station

Louisiana Agriculture

No abstract provided.

Louisiana Agriculture Magazine, Spring 1983, Lsu Agricultural Experiment Station

Louisiana Agriculture

No abstract provided.

The Distribution Of Macrobenthos In Barataria Basin, Louisiana, Antonio Liborio Philomena

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Macrobenthos and environmental variables were measured in the Barataria basin, Louisiana, at 32 stations in November 1978. Three of the stations (Lake Salvador, Little Lake and St. Denis Bayou) were sampled bimonthly from November 1977 through November 1978. Abundance, diversity, and biomass results indicated two different areas: fresh, low-salinity habitats in the upper and middle basin with high biomass, abundance, and diversity, and high-salinity habitats in the lower basin with low biomass, abundance, and diversity. Over the whole basin, crustaceans were the most abundant organisms, while the mollusks dominated the biomass. Insects, nematodes, and oligochaetes were characteristic of freshwater habitats, …

Gumbo Yearbook, Class Of 1983, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

Gumbo Yearbook

The Gumbo yearbook chronicles the entire academic year at LSU. In words and especially photos, the Gumbo shows the people, places, and events that make each year unique. In addition to formal portraits of schools and departments, the book contains hundreds of snapshots of students with their friends and dozens of pages showcasing organizations.

Morphologic Lesions, Hematological And Immunological Responses And Neutrophil Functions In Fetal, Neonatal And Adult Sheep Infected With Brucella Abortus., Sammy Lee Gorham

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Fetal, neonatal and adult sheep were infected intramuscularly with B. abortus Strain 2308. Morphologic lesions were present in the regional lymph nodes of B. abortus infected neonatal and adult sheep and in the regional lymph nodes, lungs and the parietal surfaces of thoracic and abdominal organs of B. abortus infected fetuses. The regional lymph nodes of neonatal and adult sheep were moderately to markedly enlarged and contained prominent lymphoid follicles and few to numerous plasma cells. Fetal lesions were characterized by: lymph nodes with sinuses that contained numerous foamy macrophages, pneumonia and fibrin covered thoracic and abdominal organs. Fetuses responded …

The Regulation Of Gene Expression During The Aerobic Germination Of Mucor Racemosus Sporangiospores., John Edgar Linz

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study was undertaken to investigate the regulation of gene expression during the aerobic germination of Mucor racemosus sporangiospores. Sucrose density gradient analysis of spore extracts revealed that the percentage of ribosomes associated with mRNA increased from 23% in dormant spores to 85% after 10 min of germination. L-{('14)C}leucine was immediately incorporated at a rapid rate into protein of a leucine auxotroph, whereas {('3)H}uracil or {('32)P}-phosphate were not incorporated into RNA at a significant rate until 20 min after the addition of medium. Newly synthesized RNA did not appear in polysomes until at least 30 min. Polyadenylated RNA, comprising 3.3% …

Evidence For An Outer Membrane - Association Precursor Of The Extracellular Protease Produced By Serratia Marcescens., Laura Robin Liss

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Serratia marcescens LRL781, a gram-negative bacterium, produces an extracellular protease. Evidence is provided for an outer membrane-associated, larger molecular weight, enzymatically inactive precursor of the protease. Antiserum was prepared against the extracellular protease, which was purified from the supernatant fraction of S. marcescens LRL781 cultures. Column adsorption of the antiprotease serum was performed using a slurry of live cells and cellulose. The resulting effluent was serologically inactive against protease preparations and chromium chloride-coupled protease-rabbit erythrocytes. Whole washed cells agglutinated in the presence of the antiserum. Cells were uniformly labeled with ferritin conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG, indicating that the protease precursor …