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Faculty Senate Newsletter, December 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Dec 2016

Faculty Senate Newsletter, December 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: Ingeniously positioned in a way that can only be accomplished through centuries of cultural evolution, Christmas occurs near the longest, darkest night of the year so as to suggest that even a small ray of light shines brightest when piercing the gloom. However severe the shortage of light around the yuletide, it never rivals the acute dimness of that social counterpart to night, blacklisting. With the advent of web sites such as Professor Watch List, an organization that stigmatizes dissenting professors and encourages students to reconnoiter them, blacklisting is much in the news these days, and rightly …


Comment On “Sr-Nd Isotope Composition And Clay Mineral Assemblages In Eolian Dust From The Central Philippine Sea Over The Last 600kyr: Implications For The Transport Mechanism Of Asian Dust” By Seo Et Al., Zhaokai Xu, Tiegang Li, Peter D. Clift, Shiming Wan, Mingjiang Cai, Hongjin Chen Dec 2016

Comment On “Sr-Nd Isotope Composition And Clay Mineral Assemblages In Eolian Dust From The Central Philippine Sea Over The Last 600kyr: Implications For The Transport Mechanism Of Asian Dust” By Seo Et Al., Zhaokai Xu, Tiegang Li, Peter D. Clift, Shiming Wan, Mingjiang Cai, Hongjin Chen

Faculty Publications

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Priming Of Narrative Language In Young Adults, Rachel M. Crowder Dec 2016

Priming Of Narrative Language In Young Adults, Rachel M. Crowder

Honors Capstones

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Dismantling Traditional Neighborhood Schools To Create An All Charter System: A Counter Narrative Of Experimental School Reform In New Orleans Post-Katrina, Chauncey E. Stephens Nov 2016

Dismantling Traditional Neighborhood Schools To Create An All Charter System: A Counter Narrative Of Experimental School Reform In New Orleans Post-Katrina, Chauncey E. Stephens

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Religion In America: The Basics, Michael Pasquier Oct 2016

Religion In America: The Basics, Michael Pasquier

Faculty Publications

Religion in America: The Basics is a concise introduction to the historical development of religions in the United States. It is an invitation to explore the complex tapestry of religious beliefs and practices that shaped life in North America from the colonial encounters of the fifteenth century to the culture wars of the twenty-first century. Far from a people unified around a common understanding of Christianity, Religion in America: The Basics tracks the steady diversification of the American religious landscape and the many religious conflicts that changed American society. At the same time, it explores how Americans from a variety …


Faculty Senate Newsletter, October 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Oct 2016

Faculty Senate Newsletter, October 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: When November opens the calendrical gateway to the holidays, Thanksgiving, the holiday nominally devoted to appreciation, draws attention to the question of gratitude. Faculty members live, move, and have their being in the sphere of gratitude. These talented people, whose aptitudes would qualify them for a thousand high-paying careers, set aside lucrative opportunities in order to celebrate the bounty of knowledge. Even during the most depressing moments of an academic career—even despite excessive workloads, deteriorating facilities, and budget shortfalls—faculty members quietly applaud, through their service, the implicit generosity of a universe that not only makes itself interpretable, …


A Geometrical Model For Testing Bilateral Symmetry Of Bamboo Leaf With A Simplified Gielis Equation, Shuyan Lin, Li Zhang, Gadi V.P. Reddy, Cang Hui, Johan Gielis, Yulong Ding, Peijian Shi Oct 2016

A Geometrical Model For Testing Bilateral Symmetry Of Bamboo Leaf With A Simplified Gielis Equation, Shuyan Lin, Li Zhang, Gadi V.P. Reddy, Cang Hui, Johan Gielis, Yulong Ding, Peijian Shi

Faculty Publications

The size and shape of plant leaves change with growth, and an accurate description of leaf shape is crucial for describing plant morphogenesis and development. Bilateral symmetry, which has been widely observed but poorly examined, occurs in both dicot and monocot leaves, including all nominated bamboo species (approximately 1,300 species), of which at least 500 are found in China. Although there are apparent differences in leaf size among bamboo species due to genetic and environmental profiles, bamboo leaves have bilateral symmetry with parallel venation and appear similar across species. Here, we investigate whether the shape of bamboo leaves can be …


Fall 2016 Catalog, Lsu Press Oct 2016

Fall 2016 Catalog, Lsu Press

LSU Press Seasonal Catalogs

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Faculty Senate Newsletter, September 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Sep 2016

Faculty Senate Newsletter, September 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: Academe is not immune to the new epidemic of affiliation. Often enough, thinking people choose careers in higher education owing in part to a desire to escape the avalanche of demographic labels—race; class; gender; ethnicity; income; educational level; zip code and associated social status; favorite URLs—that rolls over individuality and buries free thinking. Academe, many hope, provides the last bastion for individual achievement. The quest for liberty, whether from imposed group identities or mass movements, is, as revolutionaries soon discover, not so easy as expected. Even dissidents want to belong to something. Surprisingly, academic folk prize affiliation …


First Record Of The Non-Native Suckermouth Armored Catfish Hypostomus Cf. Niceforoi (Fowler 1943) (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) From Central America, Wilfredo A. Matamoros, Caleb D. Mcmahan, Carlos R. Mejia, Parker H. House, Jonathan W. Armbruster, Prosanta Chakrabarty Jul 2016

First Record Of The Non-Native Suckermouth Armored Catfish Hypostomus Cf. Niceforoi (Fowler 1943) (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) From Central America, Wilfredo A. Matamoros, Caleb D. Mcmahan, Carlos R. Mejia, Parker H. House, Jonathan W. Armbruster, Prosanta Chakrabarty

Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University

We document the first record of Hypostomus cf. niceforoi in Central America. Two specimens of these suckermouth armored catfishes were collected in Lake Nicaragua (Nicaragua) and identified as H. cf. niceforoi. Hypostomus niceforoi is endemic to Andean streams of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru. We hypothesize that its introduction in Central America is related to the aquarium trade, as is the case of other armored catfish species introductions.


High-Resolution Spatial Distribution And Estimation Of Access To Improved Sanitation In Kenya, Peng Jia, John D. Anderson, Michael Leitner, Richard Rheingans Jul 2016

High-Resolution Spatial Distribution And Estimation Of Access To Improved Sanitation In Kenya, Peng Jia, John D. Anderson, Michael Leitner, Richard Rheingans

Faculty Publications

Background: Access to sanitation facilities is imperative in reducing the risk of multiple adverse health outcomes. A distinct disparity in sanitation exists among different wealth levels in many low-income countries, which may hinder the progress across each of the Millennium Development Goals. Methods: The surveyed households in 397 clusters from 2008-2009 Kenya Demographic and Health Surveys were divided into five wealth quintiles based on their national asset scores. A series of spatial analysis methods including excess risk, local spatial autocorrelation, and spatial interpolation were applied to observe disparities in coverage of improved sanitation among different wealth categories. The total number …


Faculty Senate Newsletter, May 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College May 2016

Faculty Senate Newsletter, May 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: With every change of regime comes a predictable if welcome discussion of the structure of higher education. In Louisiana, with its four systems and its Board of Regents, this “conversation,” as administrators like to call it, usually centers on either the rearrangement of campuses or the consolidation of administrative units or the reduction of overhead. Occasionally, the more optimistic among us hope that, during regime turnover, the membership of management boards might change (with the good effect of allowing current board members to resume their proper role, that of wealthy heirs ironically professing the gospel of the …


A First Amendment Conundrum: Hate Speech And Social Harm, Kaylyn Blosser May 2016

A First Amendment Conundrum: Hate Speech And Social Harm, Kaylyn Blosser

Honors Capstones

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Visual Synecdoche: A Typology And Visual Analysis Of Pattern Books 1830-1930, Nicholas De Godoy Lopes May 2016

Visual Synecdoche: A Typology And Visual Analysis Of Pattern Books 1830-1930, Nicholas De Godoy Lopes

Honors Capstones

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Post-Feminism For Children: Feminism ‘Repackaged’ In The Bratz Films, Sarah Anna Becker, Danielle Thomas, Michael R. Cope Apr 2016

Post-Feminism For Children: Feminism ‘Repackaged’ In The Bratz Films, Sarah Anna Becker, Danielle Thomas, Michael R. Cope

Faculty Publications

After their release in 2001, Bratz dolls carved into Barbie’s previously monopolistic share of teen doll sales. Amidst their growing popularity, cultural critics expressed a host of concerns about Bratz dolls, especially over how they sexualize youth, but the line grew to include a host of products like costumes, makeup kits, games, books, clothing, and movies. It also inspired new, similar doll lines from other toy companies. In this article, we situate the Bratz’s popularity in a specific cultural moment tied to the history of modern feminism. We use a content analysis of the Bratz movie series to explore the …


White Trash Compactor, Jacob Heflin Apr 2016

White Trash Compactor, Jacob Heflin

Honors Capstones

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Augustine And Heidegger: Curiosity And The Structure Of Time, Phillip Andrew Mclean Apr 2016

Augustine And Heidegger: Curiosity And The Structure Of Time, Phillip Andrew Mclean

Honors Capstones

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Evotext: A New Tool For Analyzing The Biological Sciences, Grant Ramsey, Charles H. Pence Apr 2016

Evotext: A New Tool For Analyzing The Biological Sciences, Grant Ramsey, Charles H. Pence

Faculty Publications

We introduce here evoText, a new tool for automated analysis of the literature in the biological sciences. evoText contains a database of hundreds of thousands of journal articles and an array of analysis tools for generating quantitative data on the nature and history of life science, especially ecology and evolutionary biology. This article describes the features of evoText, presents a variety of examples of the kinds of analyses that evoText can run, and offers a brief tutorial describing how to use it.


S16rs Sgfb No. 16 (Gary English), Lopes Apr 2016

S16rs Sgfb No. 16 (Gary English), Lopes

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

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The Effect Of Emotional Words And Sounds In Multidimensional Source Memory, Katelyn M. Mccoy Apr 2016

The Effect Of Emotional Words And Sounds In Multidimensional Source Memory, Katelyn M. Mccoy

Honors Capstones

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Understanding Inequality In Special Education: A State Level Analysis Of High School Special Education Graduation Rates, Haley Paulish Apr 2016

Understanding Inequality In Special Education: A State Level Analysis Of High School Special Education Graduation Rates, Haley Paulish

Honors Capstones

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Redefining The Word, Jalea Jackson Apr 2016

Redefining The Word, Jalea Jackson

Honors Capstones

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“Ain’T He A Beauty”: Black Queer Aesthetics And Disidentification In American Literature And Film, Rory Tolbert Boothe Apr 2016

“Ain’T He A Beauty”: Black Queer Aesthetics And Disidentification In American Literature And Film, Rory Tolbert Boothe

Honors Capstones

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Tactile Manipulatives, Color Coding, And Storytelling As Effective Strategies For Improving Second Language Fluency, Erin Fell Apr 2016

Tactile Manipulatives, Color Coding, And Storytelling As Effective Strategies For Improving Second Language Fluency, Erin Fell

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


The Rat Kingdom, Laura Gauggel Apr 2016

The Rat Kingdom, Laura Gauggel

Honors Capstones

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Women Do It Better: The Inclusion Of Women In Post-Conflict Peace Negotiations, Mary Scott Wofford Apr 2016

Women Do It Better: The Inclusion Of Women In Post-Conflict Peace Negotiations, Mary Scott Wofford

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Louisiana Agriculture Spring, 2016 Apr 2016

Louisiana Agriculture Spring, 2016

Louisiana Agriculture

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Compass: A Musical Journey Through Nature, Matthew Depaula Apr 2016

Compass: A Musical Journey Through Nature, Matthew Depaula

Honors Capstones

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The Relationship Of Passive Auditory Processing And The Irrelevant Sound Effect: An Individual Differences Investigation, Jenna Zeringue Apr 2016

The Relationship Of Passive Auditory Processing And The Irrelevant Sound Effect: An Individual Differences Investigation, Jenna Zeringue

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Spring 2016 Catalog, Lsu Press Apr 2016

Spring 2016 Catalog, Lsu Press

LSU Press Seasonal Catalogs

No abstract provided.