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Resolution Proof Technique In Linear Temporal Logic., Krzysztof Jan Kochut

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation presents a resolution proof technique for Propositional Linear Temporal Logic of discrete time with the "Until" operator. The presented proof technique stems from the resolution method developed by L. Farinas del Cerro and A. Cavalli. However, their method is incomplete, and their completeness proof, as originally reported, is incorrect. Unlike Farinas's method, our proof technique incorporated the "Until" operator, which is a very powerful and useful in describing complex temporal relationships which are common in many areas of computer science. Our technique is also proved complete. The presented resolution method for linear temporal logic is similar to classical …

The Public Reading Career Of Agnes Moorehead: An Investigation Of Her Theory And Practice., Orville Leon Perkins

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Agnes Moorehead worked as a professional actress for forty-five years. She was employed in all the major entertainment fields of her time--theatre, vaudeville, radio, film, television and the recording industry. A significant reason for this almost constant employment was Moorehead's career as a public reader of literature. The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it seeks to document Moorehead's public reading career with emphasis upon her solo performances of literature and in so doing to provide an investigation of those people and events that most influenced her success as an oral reader. The second purpose is to postulate Moorehead's …

Field Evaluation And Genetic Analysis Of {\It Heliothis\/} Spp. Resistance In Advanced Lanthanum Cotton Strains., Stephen James Stringer

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Seventeen advanced La cotton breeding strains having Heliothis spp. resistance attributed to morphological characters and allelochemics were evaluated for field resistance and flowerbud gossypol content at Baton Rouge, LA. in 1982 and 1983. These experimental cottons averaged less than 50% of the Heliothis spp. larvae and feeding-damaged fruit of two cotton cultivars recommended for production in Louisiana. These strains also had at least 25% less feeding-damaged fruit and 15% fewer live Heliothis spp. larvae than two Heliothis spp. resistant cotton germplasm lines. Results suggested that high flowerbud gossypol pigment glandulosity, rather than flowerbud gossypol content per se, played an important …

Lumières, Fall 1986, 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.

Faculty Senate Resolution 85-11, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Faculty Senate Resolution on general education criteria, adopted on July 23, 1986.

Rumors, Runaways, Revolt!: An Overview Of Slave Unrest In Colonial And Territorial Louisiana, Morris Lewis Witten

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A major problem in the historiography of slavery in Louisiana is the reliance of too many historians on the early narratives. Because they lack scholarly citations and often contain erroneous information, evaluations of slavery based on these early sources are often inaccurate. By examining four periods of slave unrest in colonial and territorial Louisiana — the 1829-1830 conspiracy known as "Samba’s Revolt," the 1795 conspiracy at Pointe Coupee Parish, the incident of runaway slaves at Natchitoches in 1804, and the 1811 uprising in St. Charles Parish — one can determine how errors in fact, once they enter the history of …

Historical Geography Of Toledo Settlement, Belize, 1868-1985: A Transition From Confederate To East Indian Landscapes, Michael Anthony Camille

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The Toledo Settlement of southeastern Belize, today an East Indian community, was established in 1868 by 66 ex-Confederates. This study, a traditional historical geography, documents the major events that shaped the settlement and reconstructs the former Confederate community at its peak as well as the present East Indian landscape. Such a setting provides a superb opportunity to study the transition of cultural landscapes.

The early settlers cleared land and established 16 estates totaling 400 acres. They eventually prospered with the cultivation of sugar which occurred, in part, because of immigration into the settlement of East Indians to work as indentured …

A Study Of Experiences Provided In The Home Environment Associated With Accelerated Reading Abilities As Reported By Parents Of Intellectually Superior Preschoolers., Jeanne Marie Laporte Burns

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to look beyond the general effect that intelligence and environment have upon the development of reading and investigate (a) differences in how accelerated readers and nonreaders perform on written language tasks and (b) differences in written language experiences provided in the home environment, as reported by parents, associated with the development of accelerated reading abilities. Due to the broadness of the term written language, only four aspects of written language were examined (i.e., awareness of concepts about print, awareness of print in the environment, awareness of letter/sound correspondences in words--invented spelling, and awareness during …

Corporate Ownership, Dividend Policy, And Capital Structure Under Asymmetric Information., Upinder Singh Dhillon

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study investigates the role of insider ownership in the dividend policy and the leverage decision of the firm. An asymmetric information model is developed with the proportion of equity owned by insiders, dividend payout, and debt as signals of firm value. Analysis of the model yields testable hypotheses that insider ownership is negatively related to the payout and debt ratio of a firm. Cross-sectional regression analysis of leverage and payout ratio of the insider ownership is performed to test for the hypotheses. The hypothesis that firms with large insider holdings have lower leverage than firms with small insider holdings …

Facilitative And Inhibitory Interactions Among Estuarine Meiobenthic Harpacticoid Copepods (Commensalism, Benthos, Louisiana)., George Thomas Chandler Ii

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

In Louisiana, USA, marshes, the harpacticoid copepods Scottolana canadensis and Pseudostenhelia wellsi are community co-dominants with similar lifestyles. Scottolana canadensis is a semi-sessile burrow-dweller capable of subsurface suspension and deposit feeding. Pseudostenhelia wellsi is a semi-sessile tube-building copepod that continuously corkscrews back and forth within its tube and appears to graze on the inner tube walls. Monospecific patches of both species (250 (.) 5cm('-2)) were generated in laboratory microcosms to determine their effects on colonization by two completely errant, burrowing harpacticoids, Nitocra lacustris and Cletocamptus deitersi, that have similar foraging and burrowing behaviors and similar effects on sediment structure. Pseudostenhelia …

Some Factors Associated With The Effectiveness Of The Agricultural Production Component In Areas Of Integrated Rural Development In Colombia As Perceived By Farmers (Crop Technology)., Luis Eduardo Chaves E.

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study was conducted in two Integrated Rural Development Districts in Colombia; South Tolima and Fusagasuga. Its specific objectives were: (1) To determine the extent to which: (a) the factors included in the agricultural production component of the DRI program (research, extension, credit, marketing), in addition to farmland and climate were limiting crop productivity; (b) the DRI program was effectively transferring crop technology; (c) farmers adopted recommended crop technology; (2) To determine: (a) some of the reasons that limited adoption of agricultural technology; (b) changes in crop production; (c) some relevant characteristics of the DRI credit and marketing programs; (d) …

Circadian Lipogenic Responses To Insulin And Prolactin., Anthony Henry Cincotta

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Lipogenic responsiveness to insulin was investigated at different times of day in freshly isolated hepatocytes and in primary cultured hepatocytes of Syrian hamsters, Mesocricetus auratus held on 14 hour daily photoperiods (lights on: 08.00) by following (('14)C)acetate incorporation into total cell lipid. The influence of prolactin on lipogenesis was tested by adding the hormone in vivo and directly to primary cultured hepatocytes. The findings of these studies are unique in that they demonstrate important roles of temporal interaction between prolactin and insulin in regulation of lipogenesis in cultured hepatocytes. They are summarized as follows: (1) A circadian variation of lipogenesis …

Jurors' Decisions In A Simulated Trial Of The Pms Defense: Background Characteristics And Attitudes Toward Menstruation., Marjorie Carole Donohoe

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This mock jury study assessed the feasibility of utilizing Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) as a substantive defense in a capital case. One hundred-eighty mock jurors were asked to render judgments in identical cases of spouse murder with one of three defenses: (1) temporary insanity due to PMS; (2) temporary insanity with a reported history of psychiatric treatment; and (3) temporary insanity brought about by extreme emotional trauma. Results indicated that mock jurors rejected an insanity defense for the PMS defendant. Jurors were more willing to render an NGRI (Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity) verdict for the defendant with a documented …

Factors Affecting Summary Writing And Their Impact On Reading Comprehension Assessment., Martha Holcomb Head

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examined several factors that may be involved in the writing of summaries and the impact of these factors on the use of summaries for reading comprehension assessment. Fifty-three seventh-grade subjects of average to above-average reading ability participated in the study. Data collection took place in four sessions over a one-week duration. Levels of prior knowledge and interest in a topic, as well as general writing ability, were assessed before subjects read the target passage. Subjects read a novel passage consisting of a five-page section of a chapter in their regularly-assigned American history text. After reading, subjects wrote, in …

Stories And Storytelling In The "Libro De Buen Amor": Juan Ruiz's Use Of Folktales To Admonish, Persuade And Deceive (Spain)., Cynthia Powell Jayne

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The Libro de buen amor, a fourteenth century Spanish text by Juan Ruiz, is an extensive and complex poem rich in partially hidden messages. Thirty-five popular medieval tales form an integral part of the body of the work, and convey important information to the reader through the text of the tales and through the storytelling context created by the author. Scholars have studied the tales most often from an historical perspective, and analyzed them separately from the central narrative; or have studied the textual materials with little emphasis on the function of the tales. Although such studies provide valuable information, …

A Horizontally Reconfigurable Architecture For Extended Precision Arithmetic (Parallel Computing, Condition Codes Factoring)., Donald Mark Chiarulli

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A special computer for high-precision arithmetic and parallel processing which features an ALU that is dynamically reconfigurable under program control has been designed and a prototype machine constructed. The 256-bit ALU consists of eight 32-bit slices each of which has its own ALU operation code in each microinstruction. The slices can remain logically separated from each other, or can be dynamically connected to either or both of their neighbors under control of a segment control code that is part of each microinstruction. The result is a unique parallel architecture which provides real parallelism to user programs at the instruction level …

Fate And Transport Of Low-Ph Hazardous Materials After Deep Well Disposal., Winton G. Aubert

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The ultimate fate and chemical kinetics of low-pH hazardous wastes after deep well injection were studied. Two experimental approaches were taken. Chemical kinetics of reactions involving acids and typical formation clays was studied using a batch reaction scheme. The effects of reactions involving flowing acidic waste streams and disposal formations were characterized using sand packs of length one foot, four feet, and twenty feet. A numerical ground water flow simulator was used to model the interactions of flowing acidic wastes with linear sand packs and with a hypothetical waste disposal system. Reaction rate coefficients and activation energies were determined for …

Alcohol And Drug Abuse Subtypes: Differentiation Using The Macandrew Scale., James T. Russell

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The MacAndrew Alcoholism Scale (MAC scale) has been found generally to differentiate alcoholics from control subjects. Some researchers have proposed it measures a general tendency to abuse drugs as well. The MAC scale's construct has been purported to tap unstable psychopathy at its high end and neuroticism at its low. The present study attempted to establish whether the MAC scale alone, the standard MMPI scales alone, or the MAC scale plus the standard MMPI scales and/or other MMPI research and Wiggins content scales provide the most effective differentiation of alcoholics and drug abusers from medical controls in a VA inpatient …

Cenobium 1986, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College, School Of Veterinary Medicine, Bridget Peterson, Suzanne Stalker

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.

Red Rice Control In Rice And Soybeans In Southwest Louisiana, J L. Griffin

LSU Agricultural Experiment Station Reports

No abstract provided.

Morphologic Lesions In Brucella Abortus Infected Ovine Fetuses, S. L. Gorham, F. M. Enright, T. G. Snider, E. D. Roberts

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

On The Matroids Representable Over Gf(4), James G. Oxley

Faculty Publications

The purpose of this note is to present a counterexample to a conjecture of Kahn and Seymour on the minor-minimal matroids not representable over GF(4). © 1986.

Evidence For A Satellite Rna Associated Naturally With The U5 Strain And Experimentally With The U1 Strain Of Tobacco Mosaic Virus, R. A. Valverde, J. A. Dodds

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Analysis Of Factors Influencing The Agricultural Research Delivery System In Liberia., Walter Tamu Wiles

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Purpose. This study was carried out to assess the types of channels through which research information is disseminated to the farmer through the agricultural research delivery system in Liberia, and factors which influence the delivery of such information. Population. The population for this study consisted of 324 respondants which included 15 researchers, 127 field extension workers and 182 farmers. Data were gathered specifically from researchers working at the Central Agricultural Research Institute (CARI) and field extension workers and farmers in Bong, Lofa and Nimba counties respectively. Objectives. Two specific objectives of the study were: (1) to present profiles of the …

Computer-Aided Analysis Of Formation Pressure Integrity Tests Used In Oil Well Drilling., Mauricio Aguiar Almeida

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Formation pressure-integrity tests or leak-off tests have been increasingly performed throughout the world. The test is performed primarily to verify how much pressure can be applied to the formation below the bottom of casing, and to test the cement job sheath around the outside of the casing. The initial design of the various casing strings to be cemented in the well depends heavily on the predicted fracture-pressure curve. If this predicted curve is not verified by the test, the casing plan will have to be changed. Thus, verifying formation fracture-pressure during drilling is of great importance. However, the lack of …

Machiavellian Interpersonal Orientation In The Principalship: Role Clarity, Work Satisfaction And Principal Characteristics., Judy Ann Hickman

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examined the Machiavellian interpersonal orientation in the principalship in relation to perceptions of role clarity, satisfaction with multiple dimensions of the work context, and individual characteristics. The key focus was on how interpersonal orientation influences the way principals' "size up" their work situation. The Getzels and Guba social systems model (1957) and the Christie and Geis interaction model (1970) served as the theoretical basis for the study. An ex post factor research design was utilized in this study of 235 public school principals. Each principal responded to a research packet of measures. Factor analyses were computed for each …

The Relationship Between Teachers' Perceptions Of Principals' Job Performance, Teacher Job Satisfaction, Principal Influence And School Outcomes., John Aaron Jackson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study investigated the relationship between principals' instructional leadership behavior and school effectiveness. In the conceptual model tested, certain school context variables, teachers' job satisfaction and teachers' willingness to accept principals' influence in the instructional realm, were viewed as mediating the relationship between principals' behavior and school outcomes. From this perspective, principals' instructional leadership behavior was seen as being indirectly related to school outcomes by its impact on these mediating variables. For the purposes of this study, teachers' job satisfaction, teachers, willingness to accept principals' professional advice and teachers' perceptions of principals' effectiveness as instructional leaders served as independent variables. …

The Rhetoric Of Lee Iacocca: The Man, The Myth, The Message (Michigan)., Jayne Margaret Megginson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to analyze the rhetoric of Lee A. Iacocca as expressed in the thoughts and actions of the man; to explore rhetorical aspects of his popular myth-hero qualities; and to examine the rhetorical strategies Iacocca used in presenting his message. Criteria for the study were based on the rhetorical theories of Ernest Bormann, Lloyd Bitzer, and Kenneth Burke, with an emphasis on two of Aristotle's canons. In addition, the pattern for the myth-hero as presented by Joseph Campbell was a guide. These concepts blended into an interrelationship which helped illuminate the dimensions of Iacocca's rhetorical …

The Measurement Of Change In Performance Appraisal Rater Training., Mitzi Desselles Svoboda

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The concepts of alpha, beta, and gamma change (Golembiewski, Billingsley, & Yeager, 1976) were used to assess the effects of rater error training (RET) and frame of reference training (FOR) on performance evaluations. Two studies were conducted using students as raters; Study 1 was a laboratory study in which raters evaluated managerial performance in the form of the Borman (1979) videotapes. Study 2 provided a field replication of the methodology with students rating actual instructor effectiveness. In both investigations RET and FOR were found to create significant concept redefinition (gamma change). In addition, the different procedures for assessing alpha, beta, …

Use Of Tissue Culture Methods In Screening For Anthracnose (Colletotrichum Fragariae Brooks) Resistance In Strawberry., Violeta Nano Villegas

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Calli derived from 'Tangi' (susceptible) and MSUS 42 and LA 8318 (resistant) exhibited differential responses when inoculated with Colletotrichum fragariae, isolate CF1. The best differential in terms of growth and multiplication of the fungus was observed at 15(DEGREES)C and this differential decreased with increasing incubation temperature and time. Level of benzyladenine in the medium did not affect disease expression. Susceptible tissues exhibited extreme sensitivity, characterized by intense discoloration and cessation of growth, when subcultured onto a medium containing the culture filtrate of C. fragariae while the resistant tissues were affected less. The efficacy of the culture filtrate was not affected …