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Partisan Representational Form And Partisan Bias In United States State Lower-House Legislative Elections: A District-Level Approach., Kenneth Alan Wink Jan 1992

Partisan Representational Form And Partisan Bias In United States State Lower-House Legislative Elections: A District-Level Approach., Kenneth Alan Wink

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

I explore the relationship between partisan votes and partisan seat allocation in U.S. state lower-house elections. Specifically, I measure the representational form (the rate of partisan seat changes given particular partisan vote changes) and partisan bias (asymmetry in the seats-votes relationship) of 441 lower-house state legislative elections in 46 states from 1968 to 1987. I then test a number of hypotheses that have been advanced to explain variation in representational form and partisan bias. Values for representational form and partisan bias are generated by creating simulations from actual election results. I simulate seat gains made by Republicans given one percent …

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Improving Long-Term Adherence To Fluid Restrictions In Hemodialysis Patients., Kevin Dale Everett Jan 1992

Improving Long-Term Adherence To Fluid Restrictions In Hemodialysis Patients., Kevin Dale Everett

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The goals of this project were to investigate factors that predicted nonadherence to fluid restrictions for patients on hemodialysis, and to evaluate a relatively long-term behavioral intervention to improve adherence to recommended fluid requirements. One hundred forty-one subjects were recruited from outpatient dialysis clinics in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In the prediction study, several medical and demographic variables as well as psychological variables of health locus of control, depressed mood, and social support were placed into a regression equation to determine the variance of fluid noncompliance predicted. It was found that variables of being male, educated, younger, and having an external …

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Cell-Mediated Immune Response To Equine Infectious Anemia Virus., Deborah Franklin Lea Jan 1992

Cell-Mediated Immune Response To Equine Infectious Anemia Virus., Deborah Franklin Lea

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The lentivirus Equine Infectious Anemia Virus (EIAV) causes an acute infection in horses which is characterized by fever, viremia, thrombocytopenia, edema, and hemolytic anemia. Most horses survive the acute disease, but remain persistently infected for life. The exact mechanism whereby horses' control their initial infection is unknown, though it appears likely that cellular immune mechanisms are involved. T lymphocytes have been shown to play a major role in the recovery from a variety of viral infections, though their role in EIAV infection has not been established. We tested peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from EIAV-infected ponies for evidence of a …

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The Use Of Goal Setting And Contingency Contracting For Improving Children's Homework Performance., Deborah Lynn Miller Jan 1992

The Use Of Goal Setting And Contingency Contracting For Improving Children's Homework Performance., Deborah Lynn Miller

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Research suggests that homework has favorable effects on learning and student achievement. However, research directed at improving homework completion and accuracy has been limited in scope. The present study examined the effects of goal setting and contingency contracting on children's homework performance. Subjects were four parent-child dyads in which the child exhibited clinically significant homework problems. Dependent variables of primary interest included direct observation of children's on-task behavior, work accuracy, and Homework Problem Checklist scores (Anesko, Schoiock, Ramirez, & Levine, 1987). Using a combination of multiple baseline and withdrawal (ABAB) designs, goal setting and contingency contracting produced significant improvements in …

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Predicting Success Of Minority Nursing Students On The "New" Nclex-Rn., Janet Simmons Rami Jan 1992

Predicting Success Of Minority Nursing Students On The "New" Nclex-Rn., Janet Simmons Rami

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to identify academic variables that could be used to forecast success for minority, baccalaureate (BSN) students enrolled in higher education in the south. A second purpose was to develop a methodological framework for predicting success on the post-1988 versions of the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN), that enhanced external validity, and generalizability. The best predictors of success for minority BSN nursing students were the Mosby assesstest, school comprehensive exit exams, GPA microbiology, the college cumulative GPA, nursing course cumulative GPA, and ACT composite. The sample included 216 Black graduates of three …

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Perceptual Evaluation Of Infant Articulatory Transitions., Nancye Chaney Roussel Jan 1992

Perceptual Evaluation Of Infant Articulatory Transitions., Nancye Chaney Roussel

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The transition portion of the speech signal has been identified as critical to the perception of both consonants and vowels. Furui (1986) demonstrated that for adult Japanese speakers a 10 ms segment of the transition centered on the area of maximum spectral movement contained the most critical information for joint consonant and vowel perception. The distribution of phonemic cues contained within consonant-vowel (CV) non-reduplicated (NRB) syllables of infants ages 6 months to 15 months was compared to the distribution observed in adult productions to examine the extent of coproductive overlap of infant consonant and vowel gestures. Truncated versions of infant …

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Preschool Social Skills: The Development Of Prosocial Interactions., Mary Boone Vonbrock Treuting Jan 1992

Preschool Social Skills: The Development Of Prosocial Interactions., Mary Boone Vonbrock Treuting

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examined differing perceptions of teachers and parents pertaining to frequency and importance of social skills and problem behaviors in preschool children. Specifically, the present investigation considered social skills of preschool children considered to be At-Risk for educationally handicapping conditions as well as a group of Typical preschool children. Both teacher and parent ratings on the Social Skills Rating System (SSRS) (Gresham & Elliott, 1990) and the revised Conners Rating Scales (CRS), (Goyette, Conners, & Ulrich, 1978) were obtained from a sample of 95 preschool children. Fifty-two subjects were enrolled in an at-risk preschool program (i.e., Head Start) and …

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The Methodological Issues Of Variance In Teacher Behavior And Student Achievement: The Relationship Of Variance To School And Teacher Effectiveness., Linda Jane Crone Jan 1992

The Methodological Issues Of Variance In Teacher Behavior And Student Achievement: The Relationship Of Variance To School And Teacher Effectiveness., Linda Jane Crone

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Three different issues were involved in this study. Issue I examined the means and variances of teacher behavior for teachers in effective school versus teachers in ineffective schools. Five teachers were evaluated from grade three and grade five of five effective and six ineffective schools (25 teachers from effective schools and 30 teachers from ineffective schools). Observations of seven dimensions of teaching behavior were conducted. In every case, the group means of teacher behavior were higher for the teachers in the effective school category. An examination of the coefficients of variation indicated that the dispersion of scores for the teachers …

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Contact Phase: Forms Of Postmodernism. (Volumes I And Ii)., Michael Owen Crumb Jan 1992

Contact Phase: Forms Of Postmodernism. (Volumes I And Ii)., Michael Owen Crumb

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation examines variant mimetic strategies as the basis for a major dialectic within postmodern culture. The method applies and sometimes extends largely accepted theoretical statements on literary form. This synthesis provides an accessible, if at times complex, schema for organizing types, genres, and postmodern products based on image production and forms of spatial/temporal discourse. An investigation of several theorists and artists grounds a theory of literary and cinematic expressionism as the basis for postmodern culture, with particular emphasis given to the interpenetration of literary and cinematic styles in the twentieth century. An aesthetic dialectic emerges in the movement toward …

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Modernity And War In The Poetry Of T. S. Eliot., Patricia Anne Gabilondo Jan 1992

Modernity And War In The Poetry Of T. S. Eliot., Patricia Anne Gabilondo

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Although most readers of T. S. Eliot have agreed that the European experience of world war and the resultant political and cultural dislocations provided an important context and source of imagery for much of his work, what has not been recognized is Eliot's use of figures of war to represent the intimate yet antagonistic relations between the poet's writing of modernity and the text that is history. Beginning with a tropological analysis of Eliot's "A Note on War Poetry," relative to both the genre of war poetry and aesthetic modernity, this study examines the figural interpenetration of war and literary …

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Physiological Studies On Postharvest Leaf Blackening In Cut Flower Protea Species., Margaret Robyn Mcconchie Jan 1992

Physiological Studies On Postharvest Leaf Blackening In Cut Flower Protea Species., Margaret Robyn Mcconchie

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

To develop an understanding of the physiology which results in postharvest leaf blackening, cut flower Protea species were studied in relation to changes in leaf carbohydrate metabolism, membrane deterioration, and oxidative enzyme activity. Rapid development of leaf blackening in the dark was correlated with low starch and sucrose concentrations. Postharvest decline in leaf carbohydrate status appears to be associated with inflorescence sink demand. Leaf blackening was reduced in the light and carbohydrate pools were maintained due to photosynthesis. In floral stems of P. neriifolia, P. Susannae x compacta and P. eximia (which have differing susceptibilities to leaf blackening), leaf blackening …

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Severe Chronic Pain Across The Lifespan: Is Age Related To Response To Treatment?, Susan Jacqueline Kotler-Cope Jan 1992

Severe Chronic Pain Across The Lifespan: Is Age Related To Response To Treatment?, Susan Jacqueline Kotler-Cope

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study evaluated the relationship of age to various aspects of the chronic pain syndrome before and after participation in a multidisciplinary 21-day inpatient treatment program for chronic pain at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Long Beach, California. Subjects were 135 male servicemen and veterans, ranging in age from 23 to 71 years. Age was significantly related to number of medical problems and duration of pain, but not number of pain sites, surgeries, or medications. While age was negatively, but weakly associated with cognitive aspects of depression on admission, it was not significantly related to either total score on …

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An Evaluability Assessment Of The Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service 4-H Program., Robert F. Richard Jan 1992

An Evaluability Assessment Of The Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service 4-H Program., Robert F. Richard

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

In evaluation practice, Evaluability Assessment (EA) is recognized as an affective tool to determine if a plausible program logic exists before the effort is made to evaluate impact. Applying EA in the Cooperative Extension System, if programs lacked plausibility, the process was used as a design tool. Following the steps recommended in this process, a representative work group of Extension agents, specialists and administrators: (1) identified and developed an educational effects matrix for each of five target audiences of the 4-H program--4-H youth, other youth, family members, leaders and policy makers; (2) abstracted themes emerging from telephone interviews of 95 …

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The Difference That Made A Difference: Nuances Of A Transformative Curriculum In The Life History Of Joy Hamilton, A Child Who Has Severe Disabilities., Phyllis James Leone Jan 1992

The Difference That Made A Difference: Nuances Of A Transformative Curriculum In The Life History Of Joy Hamilton, A Child Who Has Severe Disabilities., Phyllis James Leone

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Literature emerging in the field of special education advocates a significant departure from the traditional approach that has guided special education practices, procedures, and, ultimately the decisions made about children. To date, this literature and the debates it generates are focused primarily on special education for children who have mild or moderate disabilities. The dearth of information regarding the implications of an alternative approach for children who have severe disabilities is wanting. This study examines the life history of Joy Hamilton, a child who has severe disabilities, to reveal how curriculum has affected her life. Joy's birth, her infant intervention …

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Demonstration Of A Control Strategy For Sustained Algal Growth At A Full-Scale Level Under Computer-Automated, Continuous Culture Conditions., Kelly Ann Rusch Jan 1992

Demonstration Of A Control Strategy For Sustained Algal Growth At A Full-Scale Level Under Computer-Automated, Continuous Culture Conditions., Kelly Ann Rusch

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A computerized algal turbidostat was designed and constructed for use in aquaculture facilities requiring a continuous feed source. Continuous cultures, maintained in the exponential growth phase by the continual introduction of fresh media, exhibit a steadystate nature easily adaptable to computer automation and optimization processes. These characteristics, in contrast to batch culture methods, result in both reduced land and labor requirements; an important consideration for commercial applications wherein algal production occupies as much as 40 percent of a facility in both space and cost. The turbidostat system consisted of two 0.6 m$\sp3$ growth chambers supported by a central monitoring block …

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Using Independence Training To Teach Independent Living Skills To Visually Impaired Children And Youth., Marie E. Taras Jan 1992

Using Independence Training To Teach Independent Living Skills To Visually Impaired Children And Youth., Marie E. Taras

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Two groups of students with visual impairments were taught various independent living skills. Five of the seven students also had a diagnosis of mental retardation. One group (three first graders) was taught the tasks of folding a shirt, making an emergency telephone call, and spreading soft foods with a knife. The other group (four young men) was taught to increase leisure skills through three different leatherwork tasks. Independence training was conducted in a group format, and included social learning components (e.g., self-evaluation, peer evaluation and reinforcement) in addition to traditional operant procedures (e.g., modeling, prompting). However, due to the presence …

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"Mademoiselle De Maupin": A Close Reading And Study Of The Process Of Subjectivity In Theophile Gautier's Early Nineteenth Century Novel., Rebecca Lucille Tebeau Jan 1992

"Mademoiselle De Maupin": A Close Reading And Study Of The Process Of Subjectivity In Theophile Gautier's Early Nineteenth Century Novel., Rebecca Lucille Tebeau

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation proposes a close reading of Theophile Gautiers's Mademoiselle de Maupin. The purpose of this reading is to explore subjectivity by first assuming that it is a process, enacted by the protagonist's explorations of their own identities, but not an object contained in their elaborations. This view of subjectivity implies both the representational strategies of the protagonists, as well as the narrative strategies of the text. Since Mademoiselle de Maupin's narrative structure is so inconsistent and self-conscious, the explorations of self within the text draw attention to both the fiction of identity and the "identity" of fiction as a …

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Politics, The Nationality Problem, And The Habsburg Army, 1848-1914. (Volumes I And Ii)., Lohr Eugene Miller Jr Jan 1992

Politics, The Nationality Problem, And The Habsburg Army, 1848-1914. (Volumes I And Ii)., Lohr Eugene Miller Jr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The army of the Habsburg Monarchy was the central institution of the Habsburg state, and it embodied the ideal of non-national, dynastic rule. The army leadership was aware of the dangers of nationalism, but in the period between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the revolutions of 1848, no attempt was made to overcome the danger of national disaffection. The revolutions of 1848 caused the army to remove Hungarian and Italian units from their homelands, but, despite the suspicion in which they were held, these troops fought well in the wars of 1859 and 1866. The financial weakness of …

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Leader-Member Exchange Quality: The Relationship Of Similarity, Competence, And Selected Personality Variables., Antoinette S. Phillips Jan 1992

Leader-Member Exchange Quality: The Relationship Of Similarity, Competence, And Selected Personality Variables., Antoinette S. Phillips

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) model (e.g., Cashman, Dansereau, Graen, & Haga, 1976; Dansereau, Cashman, & Graen, 1973) contends that leaders react differently with individual followers, rather than treating them homogeneously. Specifically, it assumes that leader behavior depends on relationships with individual work unit members. It further contends that followers vary in their perceptions of and reactions to leader behaviors. Followers, based on their interpersonal relationships (exchanges) with a leader, tend to form two qualitatively different groups, an in-group (higher quality) and an out-group (lower quality). Previous research has documented that insiders and outsiders may experience very different work outcomes. Factors …

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A Study Of The Differences In Induction Experiences For Teachers In Differentially Effective Schools., Carol Sue Ter Haar Jan 1992

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 …

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Interactive Graphics-Based Musculotendon Modeling For Reconstructive Surgery Of The Hand., Inmo Yoon Jan 1992

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. …

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Edwardsiella Ictaluri: Pathogenic Mechanisms And Antigens Recognized By Infected Channel Catfish., Thomas James Baldwin Jan 1992

Edwardsiella Ictaluri: Pathogenic Mechanisms And Antigens Recognized By Infected Channel Catfish., Thomas James Baldwin

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

To clarify early events in the pathogenesis of enteric septicemia of catfish, 140 channel catfish fingerlings (Ictalurus punctatus) were each infected with approximately 1.0 $\times$ 10$\sp9$ colony forming units Edwardsiella ictaluri (E. ictaluri) by intragastric intubation. Fish were sacrificed at 0, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 72, 96, and 120 hours post infection (PI). Multiple tissue samples were evaluated by gross observation, light and electron microscopy, and immunohistochemical methods. In addition, stomach, intestine, trunk kidney, and liver were cultured quantitatively for bacteria. Trunk kidney cultures were positive by 0.25 hours PI, indicating rapid transmucosal passage. Histologic lesions …

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Vestiges Of Prehispanic, Sloping-Field Terraces On The Piedmont Of Central Veracruz, Mexico, Andrew Sluyter, Alfred H. Siemens Jan 1992

Vestiges Of Prehispanic, Sloping-Field Terraces On The Piedmont Of Central Veracruz, Mexico, Andrew Sluyter, Alfred H. Siemens

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The Hemagglutinin/Esterase Gene Of Human Coronavirus Strain Oc43: Phylogenetic Relationships To Bovine And Murine Coronaviruses And Influenza C Virus, Xuming Zhang, Konstantin G. Kousoulas, Johannes Storz Jan 1992

The Hemagglutinin/Esterase Gene Of Human Coronavirus Strain Oc43: Phylogenetic Relationships To Bovine And Murine Coronaviruses And Influenza C Virus, Xuming Zhang, Konstantin G. Kousoulas, Johannes Storz

Faculty Publications

The complete nucleotide sequences of the hemagglutinin/esterase (HE) genes of human coronavirus (HCV) strain OC43 and bovine respiratory coronavirus (BRCV) strain G95 were determined from single-stranded cDNA fragments generated by reverse transcription of virus-specific mRNAs and amplified by polymerase chain reaction. An open reading frame of 1272 nucleotides was identified as the putative HE gene by homology to the bovine coronavirus HE gene. This open reading frame encodes a protein of 424 amino acids with an estimated molecular weight of 47.7 kDa. Ten potential N-linked glycosylation sites were predicted in the HE protein of HCV-OC43 while nine of them were …

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Attitudes Toward International Harmonization Efforts: A Cross-Cultural Study., M. Aileen Smith Jan 1992

Attitudes Toward International Harmonization Efforts: A Cross-Cultural Study., M. Aileen Smith

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The last two decades have seen a significant increase in the number and size of multinational corporations and a growing global investment environment. Linked to that growth has been a call for standards that produce accounting information that is capable of crossing national boundaries. One of the groups of professional elites that have addressed the call for harmonized international accounting standards is the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC). The IASC objective (IASC 1988, 1) states that it will "work generally for the improvement and harmonization of regulations, accounting standards and procedures ... " To address such a goal, the IASC …

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Codependency Issues In Selected Contemporary American Plays., Jill Stapleton Bergeron Jan 1992

Codependency Issues In Selected Contemporary American Plays., Jill Stapleton Bergeron

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Codependency is defined in this study as a disease characterized by individual adult inability to function in everyday life, in particular regards to personal relationships with others, in a healthy and self-loving manner. The study points to the works of several prominent theorists and practitioners in this field, such as John Bradshaw, Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse, Anne Wilson Schaef, and John and Linda Friel, as authoritative resource material on the subject. Being progressive in nature, codependency eventually leads to a host of severe personality and physical disorders, and usually to some form of suicide. The study points to abusive treatment in childhood--either …

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Effects Of Imagery-Eliciting Strategies On Imagery Processing, Memory, Beliefs, Attitudes, And Intentions From Print Advertisements., Laurie Anne Babin Jan 1992

Effects Of Imagery-Eliciting Strategies On Imagery Processing, Memory, Beliefs, Attitudes, And Intentions From Print Advertisements., Laurie Anne Babin

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The dissertation research examined four research questions. First, the question of whether or not imagery processing could be measured was addressed. It was assumed that mental imagery does exist and can be measured in three dimensions: quality, quantity, and elaboration. Support for this assumption is provided by the psychometric properties of the scale developed to measure imagery processing in concert with the support toward nomological validity of the construct that was provided by applying the scale in an experiment. Second, antecedents to mental imagery were examined, namely, the imagery-eliciting strategies of pictures and instructions to imagine, and their effects on …

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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 Jan 1992

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 …

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Cultural Studies And The Multicultural Curriculum., Mary Susan Huddleston Edgerton Jan 1992

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) …

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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 Jan 1992

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, …

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