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Modernism's Illegitimate Progeny: Fictions Of Crime And The Experience Of Modernity., Jon Francis Thompson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation has two main concerns. The first is to see fictions of crime--a general term which I use to signify those genres concerned with crime, including detective fiction, spy thrillers, and crime fiction proper--as attempts to mediate and contain the anxieties brought about by the experience of modernity. Modernity is theorized as having three primary moments: the nineteenth, early twentieth-century experience of imperialism; the post World War I period, the high water mark of urban capitalism; and the post World War II period, which I theorize as postmodernism. I attempt to situate crime fiction within these social contexts, and …

Natural Convection Above Heated Inclined Surfaces., John Anthony King

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Motivated by a need to assess pollutant transport by upslope flows, an investigation has been conducted into the fundamentals of natural convection flow over inclined surfaces. Particular attention was focused on the influence of ambient fluid stability. Field studies were performed using tracer gas releases into the upslope flow over a Southern California mountain range. The field studies served to reveal the presence of a split slope flow recirculation and demonstrated the impact of this recirculation on the transport of pollutants from a valley. In order to pursue a controlled investigation of the phenomena found in the field work, a …

Relative Efficacy Of Treatment Strategies For Functional Misarticulation In Preschool Children: Sensory-Motor And Cognitive Approaches., Elizabeth Lathrop Phelan

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The present study investigated learning rate differences relative to number of sessions necessary to reach a terminal criterion on /s/ production accuracy by four pre-school functional misarticulators under two different treatment approaches; a sensory motor approach and a cognitive-communicative approach. Phonetic transcriptions of the misarticulator's productions of a forty item word and connected speech generalization probe administered continuously over treatment was used to determine percentage of correct productions. Probe items included /sC-/, /sCV-/, /-Vs/, and /-VCs/ single syllable word shapes. These four and five year old misarticulating subjects who produced stop consonants for (s) were also compared with four normal …

Leader Behavior, Organizational Effectiveness And Job Satisfaction Of Vocational Teachers In Malaysia., Ahmad Mohammad Sharif

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purposes of this study were to identify the relationships of the perceptions of both leader behavior and organizational effectiveness to the job satisfaction of vocational teachers in vocational schools in Malaysia. Nine social and demographic characteristics of respondents were also investigated. The study was also aimed at determining the relative influence of the selected factors on the job satisfaction of respondents. A simple random sample of 250 teachers was selected, of whom 225 responded. The Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) - long form was used to measure job satisfaction, while the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire and the Index of Perceived …

A Comprehensive Methodology For Algorithm Characterization, Regularization And Mapping Into Optimal Vlsi Arrays., Hassan Reda Barada

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation provides a fairly comprehensive treatment of a broad class of algorithms as it pertains to systolic implementation. We describe some formal algorithmic transformations that can be utilized to map regular and some irregular compute-bound algorithms into the best fit time-optimal systolic architectures. The resulted architectures can be one-dimensional, two-dimensional, three-dimensional or nonplanar. The methodology detailed in the dissertation employs, like other methods, the concept of dependence vector to order, in space and time, the index points representing the algorithm. However, by differentiating between two types of dependence vectors, the ordering procedure is allowed to be flexible and time …

Hypercube-Based Topologies With Incremental Link Redundancy., Shahram Latifi

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Hypercube structures have received a great deal of attention due to the attractive properties inherent to their topology. Parallel algorithms targeted at this topology can be partitioned into many tasks, each of which running on one node processor. A high degree of performance is achievable by running every task individually and concurrently on each node processor available in the hypercube. Nevertheless, the performance can be greatly degraded if the node processors spend much time just communicating with one another. The goal in designing hypercubes is, therefore, to achieve a high ratio of computation time to communication time. The dissertation addresses …

Re-Inventing The Public Sphere: Critical Theory, Social Responsibility, Schools, And The Press., John Pace Konopak

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examines the contemporary discourses of journalism and pedagogy from the standpoint of critical theory to assess the impact of technocratic rationality and instrumental logic on the practices of communication and education. It is premised on the observation that, spurred by the imperatives of trans-national capital accumulation, privatization inimical to democratic interests has begun to colonize public education. The study represents an effort to reactivate a concept and rhetoric of "social responsibility" that would animate a project of reclaiming cultural space to be occupied by a "public sphere," in a struggle analagous to that waged against feudalism and monarchical …

Ecological Studies Of Velvetbean Caterpillar, Anticarsia Gemmatalis Hubner, Pupae In Louisiana Soybean Fields., Joon-Ho Lee

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The microhabitat distribution of velvetbean caterpillar (VBC), Anticarsia gemmatalis Hubner (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) was studied in soybean field cages and fields during 1985, 1986 and 1987. Larval density did not affect pupal horizontal distribution patterns related to direction and distance from the plant row. Pupae were found equally on both sides of soybean plant rows in a cage study. Pupae were found on and below the soil surface, but not on the plant. In 51 cm row spacing, both equal number and similar dispersion pattern of pupae were found on either side of the plant row. In 91 cm row spacing, …

A Catalyst For Change: The Libretti Of Jean -Philippe Rameau's 'Tragedies En Musique', (1733-1764)., Jonathan Philip Joseph Radvan

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Jean-Philippe Rameau was the most celebrated composer of opera and the foremost music theorist in eighteenth century France and great attention has justly been given to his musical and theoretical works, but there has been no corresponding study, such as this one, of the libretti of his operas, which depart from the precepts of neo-classical drama and reflect a new sentimental age. The librettists of the tragic operas of Rameau introduced many innovations to the tragic genre, hitherto forbidden by the rigid canons of neo-classicism. They were free to do so because opera was a relatively new genre which could …

Essays On The Components Of The Bid-Ask Spread., Pei-Hwang Wei

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The presence of the bid-ask spread causes equilibrium prices to deviate from transaction prices. More importantly, the components of the spread--the order component, the inventory component, and the information component--have different impacts on transaction prices. In general, the order and the inventory components induce negative correlation in successive transaction price changes. On the other hand, transaction prices will form a martingale if only the information component exists. This dissertation is composed of three related essays that utilize this general relationship between transaction prices and the components of the spread. The first essay employs a cross-sectional analysis that relates components of …

New Learning And Control Algorithms For Neural Networks., Chung Hwa Youn

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Neural networks offer distributed processing power, error correcting capability and structural simplicity of the basic computing element. Neural networks have been found to be attractive for applications such as associative memory, robotics, image processing, speech understanding and optimization. Neural networks are self-adaptive systems that try to configure themselves to store new information. This dissertation investigates two approaches to improve performance: better learning and supervisory control. A new learning algorithm called the Correlation Continuous Unlearning (CCU) algorithm is presented. It is based on the idea of removing undesirable information that is encountered during the learning period. The control methods proposed in …

Toxicity Of Permethrin To Procambarus Clarkii, And The Effects Of Permethrin-Induced Density Reduction And Supplemental Feeding On Stunted Crawfish Populations., Herman Henry Jarboe

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The acute toxicity of permethrin to red swamp crawfish (Procambarus clarkii) was evaluated in laboratory studies. The mean static acute 96-h LC50 of permethrin to red swamp crawfish 8-12 mm (0.017 g), 25-35 mm (0.64 g), 45-55 mm (2.45 g), and 65-75 mm total length (TL) (8.98 g) was 0.44, 0.85, 1.30, and 0.81 $\mu$g/L, respectively. Permethrin toxicity did not differ among immature male, mature male and female P. clarkii. Crawfish surviving permethrin exposure exhibited no differences in post-exposure growth, survival, maturity attainment, or the production of viable young when compared to non-exposed controls (P $>$ 0.2). At the …

Molecular Characterization Of Fall Armyworm Mitochondrial-Dna (Spodoptera Frugiperda (J. E. Smith);)., Li Dao Ke

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Chapter I. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was isolated, purified from pooled samples of fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, and characterized. The yield of mtDNA from adults ranged from 45 to 114 ng per moth. Entire mtDNA from adult FAW showed 1 to 3 electrophoretic bands when electrophoresed on agarose gels. When digested with SalI or XhoI restriction endonucleases, all DNA forms co-migrated as single bands with the same mobility. XbaI cleaved the mtDNA into three fragments of 8083 $\pm$ 524, 6179 $\pm$ 430, and 1990 $\pm$ 140 base pairs (bp). The FAW mitochondrial genome size was calculated to be 16,253 $\pm$ …

Optimal Design And Control Of Distribution System Capacitors., Nugroho Iwan Santoso

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The rapidly escalating costs of generation and transmission facilities as well as energy production have focussed attention on the need to optimize system capacity release and energy losses. The problem is generally solved by controlling the voltage or reactive power which also has a pivotal role within the distribution automatization schemes. A review of reactive power compensators and methodologies in designing and controlling distribution capacitors is given. In the presence of voltage source harmonics, a local load reactive power compensation method, cost-constrained power factor optimization using an LC compensator, is discussed. A new methodology based on a piecewise method for …

A Unified Approach To Quantum Dynamical Maps And Gaussian Wigner Distributions, Francis J. Narcowich, R. F. O'Connell

Faculty Publications

The KLM conditions are conditions that are necessary and sufficient for a phase-space function to be a Wigner distribution function (WDF). We apply them here to discuss three questions that have arisen recently: (1) For which WDFs P0 will the map P→P0*P be a quantum dynamical map - i.e. a map that takes WDFs to WDFs? (2) What are necessary and sufficient conditions for a phase-space gaussian to be a WDF? (3) Are there non-gaussian, non-negative WDFs? © 1988.

Dissipative Quantum Tunneling: Quantum Langevin Equation Approach, G. W. Ford, J. T. Lewis, R. F. O'Connell

Faculty Publications

The quantum Langevin equation is used as the basis for a discussion of dissipative quantum tunneling. A general analysis, including strong coupling and non-markovian (memory) effects, is given for the case of tunneling through a parabolic barrier at zero temperature in the presence of linear passive dissipation. It is shown that dissipation always decreases the tunneling rate below the barrier and increases transmission above the barrier. As a particular application, the case of the resistively shunted Josephson junction is considered. Simple closed form expressions for the tunneling rate and for the noise power spectrum are obtained and compared with results …

Faculty Senate Resolution 87-07, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Faculty Senate Resolution on an Ombudsman Office, adopted on January 20, 1988.

Marsh Management Plans In Practice: Do They Work In Coastal Louisiana, Usa?, James H. Cowan Jr., R. Eugene Turner, Donald R. Cahoon

Faculty Publications

Louisiana's coastal wetlands represent about 41% of the nation's total and are extensively managed for fish, fur, and waterfowl. Marsh management plans (MMPs) are currently used to avoid potential user conflicts and are believed to be a best management practice for specific management goals. In this article, we define MMPs and examine their variety, history, impacts, and future.

A MMP is an organized written plan submitted to state and federal permitting agencies for approval and whose purpose is to regulate wetland habitat quantity and quality (control land loss and enhance productivity). MMPs are usually implemented by making structural modifications in …

A Behavioral Test Of The Affinity-Seeking Model: Nonverbal Tactics Among Strangers And Acquaintances., Dominique Marie Gendrin

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This research examined the Affinity-Seeking model devised by Bell and Daly (1984). Two components of the model were considered: preinteraction expectancies constraining a social encounter and the competency of the individual as an affinity-seeker. It was hypothesized that strangers would approach a friendly target through the reciprocity strategy and an unfriendly target through the compensatory strategy by increasing behavioral cues of immediacy (e.g., eye-gaze, smiling/laughter, verbalizations, and proximity). It was hypothesized, on the other hand, that acquaintances would not increase their behavioral involvement in view of a friendly expectancy while they would compensate for an unfriendly one. The findings revealed …

Cenobium 1988, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College, School Of Veterinary Medicine, Rosmarie Eger

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.

An Integrated Insect Pest Management System For Louisiana Christmas Tree Growers, Abe Douglas Oliver

LSU Agricultural Experiment Station Reports

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The Time Course Of Acoustic/Phonemic Cue Integration In The Sensorineural Hearing-Impaired., Donald Joseph Schum

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

It has been documented that phonemic featural information is differentially distributed across time in the speech waveform. It is also known that listeners with sensorineural hearing impairment often make errors on phoneme identification tasks. However, there is little documentation available that describes how the hearing-impaired listener uses the various sources of phonemic information which are distributed in the speech waveform. In this investigation, a group of normal hearing listeners and a group of sensorineural hearing-impaired listeners (with and without the benefit of amplification) identified various consonant and vowel productions that had been systematically varied in duration. The consonants (presented in …

The Army Air Corps Under Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Influence Of Air Power On The Roosevelt Administration, 1933-1941., Jeffery Scott Underwood

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

When Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House in 1933, the leaders of the Army Air Corps wanted to create an independent air force. Using Billy Mitchell's tactics of public confrontation, exploitation of the Air Corps' poor condition and unproven claims about air power, these officers only antagonized the people who could grant them independence. After 1934, Oscar Westover, H. H. "Hap" Arnold, Frank Andrews, and a number of other Air Corps officers started a concerted effort to promote themselves as "team players" who had given up Mitchell's methods. With demonstrations, like long range flights to South America, they proved …

The Relation Of Teacher Feedback To Student Achievement In Learning Selected Tennis Skills., Tony Eghan

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study assessed the impact of teacher feedback on student achievement in learning three tennis skills (forehand, backhand, and the serve). It also described teacher feedback patterns in teaching beginning tennis. Subjects consisted of a professional tennis instructor and 40 undergraduate male and female students enrolled in two beginning tennis classes. Fifteen 30-min instructional sessions were videotaped and audiotaped within a 10-week period. Subjects were pretested and posttested on the three tennis skills. The tapes were coded for type and frequency of teacher feedback. The mean occurrence of teacher feedback directed to individual students was about 1 (M = 1.4, …

'You Are About To Begin Reading': The Nature And Function Of Second Person Point Of View In Narrative., Darlene Marie Hantzis

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study asserts that second person point of view functions as a distinct category of point of view, which has been discounted by critical theorists. Second person point of view is defined in this study as a particular use of the second person pronoun. The "you" in second person point of view texts generates an alternating pattern of identification and displacement that constructs an intersubjectivity among narrative elements--narrator, actant, and narratee(s). Therefore, common uses of the "you" to refer only to the reader (narratee) of a text or to the actant in a text do not constitute second person point …

Applications Of Solid State Deuterium Nmr Spectroscopy., William Lawrence Jarrett Jr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Solid-state deuterium NMR spectroscopic techniques have been applied to a series of organic and organometallic systems. The construction and operation of an ADLF (adiabatic demagnetization in the laboratory frame) spectrometer is described in detail. The instrument has been used to obtain high-field solid-state deuterium NMR spectra for a series of para-substituted phenyl acetic acids which have been deuteriated at the methylene site, as well as $d\sb1$-napthalene, triphenylphosphonium-(methyl-$d\sb3$) bromide, and barium chlorate monohydrate (25% deuteriated). The data for the para-substituted phenyl acetic acids show that the two methylene deuterons are inequivalent. This inequivalency is due to the difference in the $\sp2$H-C$\sb1$-C$\sb2$-O …

The Dextranase Of Lipomyces Starkeyi And Its Use In Sugar Cane Processing., David William Koenig

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Dextranase is an enzyme which destroys dextran, a contaminant in sugar and a main constituent of dental plaque. Dextranase utilization can solve a major economic problem in the sugar industry, and in dental preparations it can keep teeth essentially free of plaque. The dextranase from the yeast Lipomyces starkeyi was investigated because this organism has been used in food related processes. This attribute should allow for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for use of a Lipomyces dextranase. None of the existing commercial dextranase preparations have FDA approval. L. starkeyi was found to produce maximum amounts of dextranase when grown …

The Relative Effects Of Salespersons' Ratings On Ability And Effort Criteria., Sandra Edwards Mckay

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Performance appraisal is a crucial function of sales managers. Often, performance appraisal information is used as a basis for decisions relating to pay, promotion, and termination. Such decisions can have a substantial impact on the motivation, satisfaction, and productivity of members of the sales force. Despite its importance, little research has investigated the way in which decisions concerning salesperson performance are made. The primary goal of this research was to examine the relative effects of salespeople's ability and effort on decisions relating to promotion, compensation, transfer, and termination. A secondary purpose was to see if salesperson sex influenced these decisions. …

Study On The Translation Initiation Mechanism On Picornaviral Rna., In-Woo Park

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

To understand the initiation of translation of picornavirus RNA, cell-free translation of the RNA of encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) was examined after hybridization of chemically synthesized cDNA fragments to different sites of the 5$\sp\prime$ untranslated region (5$\sp\prime$ UTR) of the viral RNA and after deletion of specific segments of the 5$\sp\prime$ UTR by RNase H digestion. In addition, "translation competition" experiments, using RNA fragments derived from different parts of the 5$\sp\prime$ UTR, were performed. The results of these experiments are summarized as follows: (i) Binding of cDNA fragments to sequences between the 5$\sp\prime$ terminus and nucleotide 338 caused no effect on …

Thinking Processes, Management Routines And Student Perceptions Of Expert And Novice Physical Education Teachers., Karyn R. Nelson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examined thought processes including problem-solving and interpretations of instructional situations of expert and novice physical education teachers at two grade levels. Four expert and four novice teachers (two each at the third grade and two each at the seventh grade) participated in the study. Thoughts, concerns, decisions, and awarenesses of expert and novice teachers during instruction were evaluated as well as their students' perceptions of the instruction. A total of 144 students were interviewed. Class rules and management routines established during the first week of the school year by two of the expert teachers (one at each grade …