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On P-Confidence Intervals For G-Expectations, Leo Shen, Rodney C Wolff

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

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The Critical Vernacular Component A Material Exploration Mississippi River Basin, Louisiana, Nathaniel Frank

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

The Dynamics Of Memory Retrieval: Using Mouse Movements To Test Single­ And Dual­Process Theories, Brittany Martin

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Surviving The Velvet Hammer: Analyzing The Criminalization Of Working Class Mothers In A Neoliberal Context, Grace Reinke

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Proficiency In Native And Nonnative English Speakers: The Effects Of Individual Difference Variables On Performance, Haley E. Barlow

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Grammatical Morphology In A Child With Autism, Katherine Ball

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Employing Extracellular Vesicles To Overcome Immunological Barriers To Aav- Mediated Gene Transfer & Ethical And Policy Implications Of Orphan Drug Development And Accessibility, Zachary Fitzpatrick

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Visualization And Analysis Of Wikipedia Data Relating To Louisiana And Its Culture, Morgan Hargrove

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Roots, Rock And Public Relations: A Study Of The U.S. Government’S Use Of Music As A Tactic In Its Cultural Diplomacy Efforts, Katherine Sartain

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Artist/Philosophers: Reading Art As Philosophy And Self-Creationism, Endya Hash

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Our Cosmogonies: Creation Myth In Everyday Moments, Samantha Bares

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Global Disconnect: Drug Trafficking And The Failure Of International Enforcement, Melissa Wheeler

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Impact Of Westernization On Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 Levels Among Individuals Of African Ancestry, Karl Eckberg, Holly Kramer, Myles Wolf, Ramon Durazo-Arvizu, Bamidele Tayo, Amy Luke, Richard Cooper

Faculty Publications

IntroductionThe Western diet is associated with high consumption of processed foods preserved with phosphate. Higher dietary phosphate consumption stimulates production of fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23), which heightens risk for cardiovascular disease and mortality. We hypothesized that adults living in a more westernized society have higher levels of FGF23 due to increased phosphate consumption as measured by urinary phosphate excretion. MethodsWe measured plasma C-terminal FGF23 levels and urinary phosphate and creatinine levels in timed urine collections among 100 African adults living in the rural area of Igbo-Ora, Nigeria (52 women, 48 men), and 100 African Americans (32 women, 68 men) …

Spring 2015 Catalog, Lsu Press

LSU Press Seasonal Catalogs

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Motivations For Participation In Knitting Among Young Women, Casey R. Stannard, Eulanda A. Sanders

Faculty Publications

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S15rs Sgr No. 18 (Pre-Law Program), Jacob Phagan

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

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Preserving Photon Qubits In An Unknown Quantum State With Knill Dynamical Decoupling: Towards An All Optical Quantum Memory, Manish K. Gupta, Erik J. Navarro, Todd A. Moulder, Jason D. Mueller, Ashkan Balouchi, Katherine L. Brown, Hwang Lee, Jonathan P. Dowling

Faculty Publications

The implementation of polarization-based quantum communication is limited by signal loss and decoherence caused by the birefringence of a single-mode fiber. We investigate the Knill dynamical decoupling scheme, implemented using half-wave plates, to minimize decoherence and show that a fidelity greater than 99% can be achieved in the absence of rotation error and a fidelity greater than 96% can be achieved in the presence of rotation error. Such a scheme can be used to preserve any quantum state with high fidelity and has potential application for constructing all optical quantum delay lines, quantum memory, and quantum repeaters.

A Case Study Of Middle Grades Leadership In A Conversion Charter School, Dana L. Bickmore, Margaret Mary Sulentic Dowell

Faculty Publications

This 3-year case study examined middle grades principal leadership in a takeover charter school. The researcher analyzed principal and teacher interviews, field notes, and documents in relationship to a middle grades model of principal leadership. Results suggest the principals’ limited experience, organizational factors unique to takeover charter schools, an emphasis on student test scores, and a personal educational philosophy of teacher autonomy, precluded the advocacy and implementation of elements of the middle grades principal leadership model.

Faculty Senate Newsletter, March 2015, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: In times like the present, the offhand suggestion that “it doesn’t really matter” comes across as crude and unfeeling, a kind of cheap cynicism voiced by a privileged person in the midst of other people’s struggles. Such a flip remark seems doubly dubious when attached to questions so pressing as the current budget crisis. Yet, in some sad sense, this idiom applies exactly to the situation in which fund-starved universities find themselves. Momentarily setting aside the stress and anxiety experienced by thousands of noblyintentioned professionals and other university employees, one can, without callousness, affirm that no sum …

Examining The Motivations And Barriers Influencing The Decisions Of Louisiana State University College Of Agriculture Freshmen To Participate In International Experiences, Shelli Danjean, J. C. Bunch, Joey Blackburn

Faculty Publications

© 2015, Assoc. Int. Agricultural and Extension Education. All rights reserved. Over the past decade, universities in the United States (U.S) have increased time and financial investments put toward internationalizing their curricula, particularly in efforts to increase students’ participation in international experiences (IEs). Despite efforts, only 10% of U.S students participated in an IE in the 2011/2012 academic year, of which only 1.3% included students in agriculturally-related majors. The purpose of the study was to examine the motivations and barriers influencing the decisions of College of Agriculture (CoA) freshmen to participate in an international experience (IE). The majority of freshmen …

Examination Of Anxiety Sensitivity And Distress Tolerance As Transdiagnostic Mechanisms Linking Multiple Anxiety Pathologies To Alcohol Use Problems In Adolescents, Kate Wolitzky-Taylor, Casey R. Guillot, Raina D. Pang, Matthew G. Kirkpatrick, Michael J. Zvolensky, Julia D. Buckner, Adam M. Leventhal

Faculty Publications

Background: Multiple forms of anxiety psychopathology are associated with alcohol use problems in adolescents. Yet, the mechanisms underlying this association are unclear. Anxiety sensitivity (AS) and distress tolerance (DT) represent 2 distinct, conceptually relevant transdiagnostic constructs implicated in multiple manifestations of anxiety that may also underlie alcohol use problems and thereby explain why people with anxiety are more likely to have alcohol problems. Methods: The current cross-sectional study examined whether AS and DT accounted for (i.e., statistically mediated) the relationship between manifest indicators of the 3 common anxiety phenotypes (generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and panic disorders) and alcohol problems in …

Under-Reporting Of Dietary Energy Intake In Five Populations Of The African Diaspora, Lindsay Orcholski, Amy Luke, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Pascal Bovet, Terrence E. Forrester, Estelle V. Lambert, Lara R. Dugas, Elizabeth Kettmann, Ramon A. Durazo-Arvizu, Richard S. Cooper, Dale A. Schoeller

Faculty Publications

Studies on the role of diet in the development of chronic diseases often rely on self-report surveys of dietary intake. Unfortunately, many validity studies have demonstrated that self-reported dietary intake is subject to systematic under-reporting, although the vast majority of such studies have been conducted in industrialised countries. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether or not systematic reporting error exists among the individuals of African ancestry (n 324) in five countries distributed across the Human Development Index (HDI) scale, a UN statistic devised to rank countries on non-income factors plus economic indicators. Using two 24 h …

Faculty Senate Newsletter, February 2015, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: An ivy-league legend holds that early twentieth-century literary scholar George Lyman Kittredge once passed a doctoral student who had flubbed his dissertation defense when, upon asking the candidate about his smoking preferences, Kittredge discovered that the lad had a keen eye for quality cigars. Although we can thank our lucky stars that Kittredge’s kind of benevolent autocracy—his readiness to use unchecked authority to show off his combined power and tastefulness—is a thing of the past, we can also at least minimally mourn the passing of eccentricity and of the mix of moxie and eagerness that induces acts …

Phytoplankton And The Macondo Oil Spill: A Comparison Of The 2010 Phytoplankton Assemblage To Baseline Conditions On The Louisiana Shelf, M L. Parsons, W Morrison, N N. Rabalais, R. Eugene Turner, M L. Parsons

Faculty Publications

The Macondo oil spill was likely the largest oil spill to ever occur in United States territorial waters. We report herein our findings comparing the available baseline phytoplankton data from coastal waters west of the Mississippi River, and samples collected monthly from the same sampling stations, during and after the oil spill (May-October, 2010). Our results indicate that overall, the phytoplankton abundance was 85% lower in 2010 versus the baseline, and that the species composition of the phytoplankton community moved towards diatoms and cyanobacteria and away from ciliates and phytoflagellates. The results of this study reaffirm the view that phytoplankton …

Human Impacts On Fisheries Across The Land-Sea Interface, N.N. Rabalais

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Newsletter, January 2015, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: In one of his Proverbs of Hell, the late-Enlightenment poet William Blake shows the devil recommending that we “Bring out number weight and measure in a year of dearth.” Blake’s advice, uttered by the Provost of Perdition, throws a bituminous light on our contemporary preoccupation with assessment. Academic people everywhere not only labor under, but amicably collaborate in the production of statistics, measurements, evaluations, “metrics,” and a menagerie of purportedly informative numbers. We have arithmetical estimates of everything—except assessment itself. The absence of evidence for the efficacy of assessment is, if not overwhelming, at least imposing. Faculty …

Cwbr Author Interview: The Rebel Yell: A Cultural History, Craig A. Warren

Civil War Book Review

Interview with Craig A. Warren, Associate Professor of English and Prodessional Writing at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College

Interviewed by Zach Isenhower

Civil War Book Review (CWBR): Today the Civil War Book Review is happy to speak with Craig A. Warren, Associate Professor of English and Professional Writing at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. Professor Warren previously authored Scars to Prove It: The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction, and today we get to discuss his most recent book, The Rebel Yell: A Cultural History. Professor Warren, thank you for joining us today. Craig A. …

Research Matters Spring 2015, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

Research Matters & RNR Newsletters

Research Matters is a publication which highlights ongoing research, international travel experiences, classroom happenings and degree program developments of and for the School of Renewable Natural Resources' students and faculty.

Performing The Temple Of Liberty: Slavery, Theater, And Popular Culture In London And Philadelphia, 1760-1850, Jason Shaffer

Civil War Book Review

Acting out Liberty and Slavery in Antebellum Britain and the U.S.

Over the past two decades social and theatre historians have begun retelling the history of American performance culture as a critical element of the country’s political evolution Only recently, however, have they begun inte....

Thunder On The River: The Civil War In Northeast Florida, James Denham

Civil War Book Review

Emerging Slavery Economy and Disruption in Civil War Florida

Dan Schafer, professor emeritus at the University of North Florida, brings a lifetime of research to this well written, fast-pasted narrative of the Civil War in Northeast Florida. Most of his previous scholarly work has been di....