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Homosexualities: A Study Of Types., D'Lane Sally Miller Jan 1981

Homosexualities: A Study Of Types., D'Lane Sally Miller

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

With 102 male homosexual and 12 male heterosexual Ss, this study explored the possibility that a typology of homosexuality could be developed using an expanded definition of homosexuality. Proposed dimensions were the variables: gender identity, social sex role, sexual orientation, overt sexual behaviors, current psychological status, and parent-child relations. Ss were recruited by a variety of methods and demographic characteristics suggest a fairly heterogeneous sample was obtained. Scores obtained from a battery of six tests were factor analyzed using an oblique (promax) rotation. Eight factors were obtained and factor pattern scores were used in two hierarchical cluster analysis methods (Johnson, …

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Evaluation Of Structured Interpersonal Communication In The Achievement Of Business-Writing Principles., William Lee Wohlgamuth Jan 1981

Evaluation Of Structured Interpersonal Communication In The Achievement Of Business-Writing Principles., William Lee Wohlgamuth

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to provide information that might lead to a more efficient way to teach business communication. By investigating the use of structured interpersonal communication, a decision might be made as to whether or not structured interpersonal communication should be stressed, and if so, how business-writing principles might be taught more efficiently. The problem was to determine what effect structured interpersonal communication has on student achievement of the principles of business writing in a business communication course. The study was conducted at the University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana and all students in the sample …

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Professional Competencies Needed, Levels Attained And Training Sources As Perceived By Louisiana Vocational Agriculture Teachers., Fe Saavedra Saladaga Jan 1981

Professional Competencies Needed, Levels Attained And Training Sources As Perceived By Louisiana Vocational Agriculture Teachers., Fe Saavedra Saladaga

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The professional competencies (from among those that have been previously identified by Atherton in 1976) that should be included in the pre-service curriculum for vocational agriculture/agribusiness teachers in Louisiana were studied with emphasis on levels of need and attainment of competencies as perceived by teachers, and the one main training source. Differences among teachers responses on levels of need and attainment, relationships between responses on relative need for competencies and attainment levels, and differences among responses on attainment levels by selected demographic variables were investigated. The descriptive method of research was used with opinionnaires utilized for data collection. Data were …

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The Development Of A Rating Scale For Assessing Teaching Competencies Of Health Occupations Educators In The State Of Louisiana., Constance Lirette Casente Jan 1981

The Development Of A Rating Scale For Assessing Teaching Competencies Of Health Occupations Educators In The State Of Louisiana., Constance Lirette Casente

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The development of a rating scale suitable for assessing teaching competencies of health occupations educators in the State of Louisiana was accomplished by: the development and validation of a questionnaire composed of 155 competency statements within ten components--(planning, teaching, evaluation, management, guidance and placement, school-community relations, student-vocational organization, professional role, coordination of cooperative education and health care environment)--relating to health occupations education programs; ascertaining the level of importance as perceived by incumbent teachers and supervisors of public, secondary and post-secondary health occupations education programs in Louisiana, who were employed during the months of March through May, 1981; ranking these competency …

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Field Resistance To Black Root Rot Of Soybean And Response Of Selected Cultivars To Cylindrocladium Crotalariae Inoculum Density., John Robert Frantom Iii Jan 1981

Field Resistance To Black Root Rot Of Soybean And Response Of Selected Cultivars To Cylindrocladium Crotalariae Inoculum Density., John Robert Frantom Iii

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Soybean cultivars were evaluated during two consecutive years for field resistance to black root rot (BRR) caused by Cylindrocladium crotalariae. Evaluations were conducted in a naturally infested field with a 2-year history of BRR incidence. Densities of microsclerotia (ms) were measured at planting by a soil elutriation technique. Disease classes were based on a 0-4 scale of foliage symptoms (0 = no symptoms, 4 = 76-100 percent of leaves per plant displaying symptoms). Chronological age and physiological stage of plants were compared in the determination of disease indices. Significant (P = 0.05) differences in disease index values were detected among …

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A Study On Teacher Morale At A Selected Secondary School., Mark Fickie Jan 1981

A Study On Teacher Morale At A Selected Secondary School., Mark Fickie

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The intent of the study was to investigate the morale of teachers in a selected south Louisiana secondary school. Four null hypotheses were proposed and tested to identify the effect of a change of facility upon the entire group of teachers; male and female teachers; teachers under the age of thirty-seven and those who were thirty-seven years of age or older; and teachers having bachelors degrees and teachers with higher degrees that moved to a new school plant. All forty-three teachers (N = 43) employed at a selected secondary school participated in the experiment. Of that total, nineteen teachers moved …

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Patterns Of Development Of Independent Oil Companies In Louisiana: An Exploratory Study Into The Strategic Changes Of Growing Companies., David Lester Duhon Jan 1981

Patterns Of Development Of Independent Oil Companies In Louisiana: An Exploratory Study Into The Strategic Changes Of Growing Companies., David Lester Duhon

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study was conducted to gain additional knowledge about the process of change as entrepreneurships in the oil industry grow and develop. Thirty independent operators comprised the sample. The owner/manager of each firm was questioned at length about the growth of his company. Particular attention was given to identifying the relative stage of development of each firm. This was determined by analyzing the strategic characteristics identified in the literature as descriptive of stages of development. The evidence seriously questions the applicability of the stages of development model for these companies. The data strongly suggests that growth is a more gradual …

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The Processing Of Experience And The Evaluation Of The Self In Depressed And Nondepressed Females., Patricia Anne Bowers Hunter Jan 1981

The Processing Of Experience And The Evaluation Of The Self In Depressed And Nondepressed Females., Patricia Anne Bowers Hunter

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The hypotheses derived from Beck's theory that depressed individuals "minimize the positive" and "maximize the negative" were investigated using a series of positive and negative imaginary interpersonal situations. Fifty-two depressed and nondepressed college females responded to the imagined situations by rating their self-esteem and mood at three time intervals. Results showed that depressed subjects maintained lower levels of self-esteem and mood across all three measurements yet were less adversely affected with exposure to the negative situations than were nondepressed subjects. Additionally, depressed subjects showed a greater enhancement effect from the positive imagined experience even while maintaining lower levels of self-esteem …

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A Status Study Of Educational Media Services In Selected Institutions Of Higher Education In The United States., Joseph Allan Hutchinson Jan 1981

A Status Study Of Educational Media Services In Selected Institutions Of Higher Education In The United States., Joseph Allan Hutchinson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purposes of this study were (1) to determine the present status of educational media services in institutions of higher education offering doctoral programs in instructional technology; (2) to compare levels of adequacy of educational media services as perceived by educational media directors; and (3) to identify innovative practices, concepts, and emerging trends of educational media services in higher education. A descriptive survey instrument was developed to solicit data concerning staff, budget, educational media services, physical facilities, non-print materials collections, and audiovisual equipment inventories. Survey instruments were sent to the educational media directors of the forty-two universities offering doctoral programs …

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Second-Language Acquisition And The Development Of Pragmatic Code Selection Skills., Rebecca Ann Marcon Jan 1981

Second-Language Acquisition And The Development Of Pragmatic Code Selection Skills., Rebecca Ann Marcon

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Language samples and nonverbal behavior of 50 children attending bilingual Kindergarten programs were recorded from children's conversations with a puppet on three separate occasions. In order to determine the influence of the listener's language on children's code selection, the puppet spoke a different language on each occasion. Of particular interest was the extent to which children would make pragmatic adjustments in their verbal and nonverbal language codes in response to different listener needs. Differences in code selection which could be attributed to variation in second language proficiency were explored by contrasting the behavior of children classified as monolingual, limited second …

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Selected Virginia Cooperative Extension Services' Professional Personnel's Perceptions Of Concepts And Competences In Extension Program Development., Bruce Allen Little Jan 1981

Selected Virginia Cooperative Extension Services' Professional Personnel's Perceptions Of Concepts And Competences In Extension Program Development., Bruce Allen Little

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of the study was to determine the perceptions of Extension Agents, Unit Chairmen and District Staff relative to selected concepts and competences dealing with Extension Program development in the local unit. A conceptual model of Extension Program development that was developed in 1974 was used as the basis for this study. These six concepts were further used as categories for the 120 items identified for the questionnaire. The instrument was pretested prior to submitting to the population of 423 personnel of the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service. Two-hundred and ninety five, or 70 percent, who responded indicated their perceptions …

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Some Singular Measures On The Circle Which Improve L('P) Spaces., David Lawrence Ritter Jan 1981

Some Singular Measures On The Circle Which Improve L('P) Spaces., David Lawrence Ritter

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Let (mu) be a positive Borel measure on the circle group T. If, for P (GREATERTHEQ) 1, there is a q > p such that (mu) defines a bounded convolution operator from L('p)(T) to L('q)(T), then (mu) is L('p)-improving or (mu) improves L('p). Here a result of Oberlin is extended. It is shown that a large class of Cantor-Lebesgue measures improve L('p)(T) for p > 1. Also, for the members of a particular sequence of Lebesgue measures associated with some homogeneous Cantor sets, which includes the middle-third Cantor-Lebesgue measure studied by Oberlin, estimates are obtained for the amount of improvement. These results …

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The Austrian Problem Of Language And Peter Handke: A Documentation., Donald Russell Bailey Jan 1981

The Austrian Problem Of Language And Peter Handke: A Documentation., Donald Russell Bailey

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Linguistic skepticism and the resultant awareness of the limits of language can be traced back to Hamann, Herder, and Humboldt, through Romanticism and French Symbolism, up to modern times. What has come to be called the crisis of language (Sprachkrise) can be viewed as one segment of a broader, multi-media phenomenon. The intensity of this crisis is concentrated in Austro-Hungary in the waning days of the Habsburg Monarchy. From this time forward supersensitivity to language remains a strongly Austrian phenomenon and can be followed through the European, German-language, and Austrian movements of this century, up to the founding of the …

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An Evaluation Of A General Semantics Approach In Teaching Situational Leadership Theory In Women's Volunteer Service Organizations., Laura Mcquaig Badeaux Jan 1981

An Evaluation Of A General Semantics Approach In Teaching Situational Leadership Theory In Women's Volunteer Service Organizations., Laura Mcquaig Badeaux

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study was designed to evaluate the effects on followers' perceptions of leader effectiveness and leader flexibility after training the leaders of such followers in general semantics and/or situational leadership theory. The experiment involved female volunteer leaders from three Louisiana service organizations. A 21 hour course in general semantics and situational leadership theory was taught to a research group numbering 18. A control group of 17 leaders participated in an eight hour presentation of situational leadership theory, with no reference to general semantics. Pre- and post-measurements were taken using the semantic differential and Hersey and Blanchard's LEAD-Other. Leaders were rated …

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Remarque's 'Weltanschauung': A Study In Fictional Dualism., Ingrid Ehrmann Gross Jan 1981

Remarque's 'Weltanschauung': A Study In Fictional Dualism., Ingrid Ehrmann Gross

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The objective of this study was to examine Remarque's Weltanschauung as expressed through his novels. Remarque sees the world negatively when he regards it as a whole. This all-encompassing world, the macrocosm, is defined by two basic factors: the evil side of man's nature, and the existence of death. The world, as Remarque views it, is not ruled according to a divine plan but is a world of man's own making. Because man has been unable to keep in check his tendencies for committing evil, he has brought about the events which characterize the first half of the twentieth century: …

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Status And Prestige As A Factor In Brazilian Foreign Policy, 1905-1908., William Neal Nelson Jan 1981

Status And Prestige As A Factor In Brazilian Foreign Policy, 1905-1908., William Neal Nelson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study traces the two traditional Brazilian foreign policy objectives of securing recognition as an important member of the international community, and friendship with the United States, during the period 1905-1908. These two objectives are examined in the light of Brazilian concern for status and prestige at the personal, national, and international levels. The themes of gaining international recognition, and Brazilian-American friendship are interwoven with the interpersonal relations that developed on the occasion of the Second Hague Peace Conference. The Second Hague Conference (1907) was the first global meeting in which Brazil was represented. It was an opportunity for Brazil …

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Effects Of A Sex Education Workshop In An Adolescent In-Patient Psychiatric Population., Christine E. Angelloz Jan 1981

Effects Of A Sex Education Workshop In An Adolescent In-Patient Psychiatric Population., Christine E. Angelloz

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The present study was an experimental investigation of the effects of a sex education workshop in an adolescent in-patient psychiatric population. Eleven adolescent patients (seven males, four females) participated in the eight session sex education workshop (SEW). The attention control group was composed of eight patients (four males, four females) who participated in eight informal discussion (ID) sessions. The research utilized a pretest-posttest design. The dependent variables were sex knowledge as measured by the Sex Knowledge Inventory, self-concept as measured by the Total Positive, Self Criticism, and General Maladjustment scales of the Tennessee Self Concept Scale, and personal adjustment as …

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Cenobium 1981, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College, School Of Veterinary Medicine, Joanne Maki Jan 1981

Cenobium 1981, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College, School Of Veterinary Medicine, Joanne Maki

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.

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Null Faraday Rotation-A Clean Method For Determination Of Relaxation Times And Effective Masses In Mis And Other Systems, R. F. O'Connell, G. L. Wallace Jan 1981

Null Faraday Rotation-A Clean Method For Determination Of Relaxation Times And Effective Masses In Mis And Other Systems, R. F. O'Connell, G. L. Wallace

Faculty Publications

We determine the relation between photon, cyclotron, collision, and plasma frequencies which ensures a null Faraday rotation for electromagnetic wave propagation in a free-carrier magnetoplasma. This provides a clean determination (in the sense that it is independent of multiple reflections and the length of the plasma along the beam direction) of scattering times and effective masses in MIS and other systems. © 1981.

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An Empirical Study Of The Characteristics Of The Governmental Budgetary Process In Rich And Uncertain Environments: The Case Of Saudi Arabia., Abdulrhman I. Alhumaid Jan 1981

An Empirical Study Of The Characteristics Of The Governmental Budgetary Process In Rich And Uncertain Environments: The Case Of Saudi Arabia., Abdulrhman I. Alhumaid

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

As reflected by the literature, the environment of each country influences the characteristics of the budgetary process in that country. Often-cited factors which shape this environment are: economic wealth, financial predictability, political institutions, elite values, and size. Economic wea.

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Oral And Written Linguistic Indices Of Deception During Employment Interviews., Kittie Wells Watson Jan 1981

Oral And Written Linguistic Indices Of Deception During Employment Interviews., Kittie Wells Watson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study was designed to find preliminary information concerning differences between oral and written linguistic indices of deception during employment interviews. It was predicted that: (1) oral messages would be characterized by significantly different linguistic indices than written messages, (2) truthful messages would be characterized by significantly different linguistic indices than deceptive messages, (3) male responses would be characterized by significantly different linguistic indices than female responses, and (4) individual question responses would be characterized by significantly different linguistic indices than other individual question responses. 31 male and 42 female students enrolled in undergraduate business and professional communication courses participated …

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A Study Of Ascus Developmental Fine Structure In Eleutherascus Peruvianus Huang With Special Reference To Ascospore Ontogeny., Walstine Lon Steffens Iii Jan 1981

A Study Of Ascus Developmental Fine Structure In Eleutherascus Peruvianus Huang With Special Reference To Ascospore Ontogeny., Walstine Lon Steffens Iii

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Eleutherascus is an enigmatic ascomycete genus with some structural features common to both the Eurotiales and Pezizales. It lacks a peridium and paraphyses and typically produces an ascocarp consisting of only one or two asci and some sterile hyphae. The life cycle of E. peruvianus was studied by electron and optical microscopy. The principle events that culminate in ascospore production and germination are described and compared to their equivalents in some purportedly related species. Ascogenesis is initiated through crozier development in a manner similarly described in many Discomycetes. Additionally, a specialized septal pore cap structure (which appears structurally equivalent to …

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The Effects Of Training On The Development Of Articulatory Target And Error Analysis Skills., Gloria Dodwell Kellum Jan 1981

The Effects Of Training On The Development Of Articulatory Target And Error Analysis Skills., Gloria Dodwell Kellum

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The articulatory target and error analysis skills of ninety-five college students who were not majoring in communicative disorders were studied to determine what type of training, if any, had an effect on their ability to evaluate and record phonological targets embedded in words and sentences.

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Factors Of Believability Of Television Newscasters., Mary Irene Blue Jan 1981

Factors Of Believability Of Television Newscasters., Mary Irene Blue

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The believability of male versus female television newscasters was examined. The research was conducted in two parts. First, a nation-wide survey of television news directors was conducted to determine their opinions concerning "What makes a newscaster believable?" The news directors were randomly selected from Broadcasting Yearbook's "Directory of Television Stations in the United States." The responses of the survey were converted to semantic differential scales. Two newscasts were constructed and videotaped which were identical except one was delivered by a male anchor person and the other by a female anchor person. A written description was used to manipulate the perceived …

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A Study Of The Relationship Of Certain Variables To Sex Characteristic Identification From The Speech Of Heterosexual And Homosexual Individuals., Norma Jean Cospelich Travis Jan 1981

A Study Of The Relationship Of Certain Variables To Sex Characteristic Identification From The Speech Of Heterosexual And Homosexual Individuals., Norma Jean Cospelich Travis

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study explored relationships of speaker sex and masculinity-femininity judgments and 12 measures of rate, fundamental frequency, and intensity from taped reading and spontaneous speech samples of female and male heterosexual and homosexual individuals. Phase One was designed to determine judgment reliability and any procedural variables that might influence judgments. Sex judgments were more accurate on the speakers' second performances. Both sex and masculine-feminine judgments were more accurate on reading than on spontaneous speech. Analysis of judgments from type-scripts of spontaneous speech yielded a significant judge sex-by-training interaction. In Phase Two, 20 listeners judged sex and masculinity-femininity from taped reading …

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Perceiving The Causes Of Cigarette Smoking: A Study Of Children And Adolescents., Rebecca Marie Watson Jan 1980

Perceiving The Causes Of Cigarette Smoking: A Study Of Children And Adolescents., Rebecca Marie Watson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Attribution theory (Heider, 1958; Jones and Davis, 1965; Jones and Nisbett, 1972; Bem, 1967) has been modified from its usual experimental setting to serve as a theoretical model for a survey of cigarette smoking behavior. The smoking behavior of "significant others" is analyzed as an important information source in the process of belief formation. The instrument for the study was a "Health Information Questionnaire" which was given to 3014 school children (grades 3-12) in Bogalusa, Louisiana, during the 1976-1977 school year. Frequencies and percentages of students' own smoking behavior and of students by the smoking behavior of "significant others" were …

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On The Classification Of Families: Dimensions Of Family Functioning Descriptions., Maria Vidos Jan 1980

On The Classification Of Families: Dimensions Of Family Functioning Descriptions., Maria Vidos

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of the present study was to determine the degree of commonality among current models of family assessment. The goal was to ascertain the most significant dimensions of family functioning. These ends were achieved by means of a principal components factor analysis. Three hundred Introductory Psychology students at Louisiana State University were asked to describe their family of origin using 240 behavioral statements provided by the examiner. The statements, printed on 3 x 5 cards, were drawn from a pool of assessment models described by Fisher (1976). The students were asked to sort each of the statements by asking …

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The Biology Of Beggiatoa., William Roy Strohl Jan 1980

The Biology Of Beggiatoa., William Roy Strohl

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Part I. An accurate most-probable-number enumeration method was developed for counting the number of Beggiatoa trichomes from various freshwater sediments. The medium consisted of extracted hay, diluted soil extract, 0.05% sodium acetate, and 15-35 units per ml of catalase. The same enrichment medium, but without the acetate, was the best enrichment medium from which to obtain pure cultures. A total of thirty-two strains of Beggiatoa were isolated from seven different freshwater habitats and were separated into five groups based on several preliminary characteristics. Four of the groups contained cells with trichomes of approximately the same diameter (1.5-2.7 (mu)m) and may …

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A Curriculum For Training Extension Agents In The Field Of Animal Science., Ronald Alvin Harrell Jan 1980

A Curriculum For Training Extension Agents In The Field Of Animal Science., Ronald Alvin Harrell

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of the study was to develop a curriculum for inservice training of Extension agents involved in animal science work. Selected aspects of curriculum and learning theory furnished the basis for a curriculum model applicable to the work area of animal science. The curriculum was derived from inputs obtained from Extension specialists in animal science, Extension agents doing livestock work and selected animal science disciplines. Curriculum disciplines included: (1) livestock management, (2) nutrition, (3) marketing, (4) breeding and physiology, and (5) meat technology. An analysis of agent cognitive ability established the agent's educational requirements. Thirty-two concepts in the animal …

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Development Of A Needs-Based Curriculum Plan In Environmental Education., James Edward Barr Jan 1980

Development Of A Needs-Based Curriculum Plan In Environmental Education., James Edward Barr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A curriculum plan in environmental education for Louisiana was developed, based on needs established by analyzing the results of testing 1,412 tenth grade students from 53 public secondary schools in Louisiana for their knowledge and opinions about the environment. The instrument used in the survey consisted of 43 cognitive and 20 affective questions. The instrument was developed from objectives selected from other state plans by a panel of 35 scientists and educators from 12 departments at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Fifty-four public secondary schools were randomly selected. Fifty-three schools, 98 percent of the sample, returned the answer forms. …

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