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The “Arab Spring” In The Discourse Of The Western Media, Logan De La Barre-Hayes

Honors Capstones

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On The River’S Surface, Ashten Landry

Honors Capstones

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A Comparison On The Effects Of Handwriting And Typing On Remembering Copied Texts, Angelo L. Sayo

Honors Capstones

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Louisiana Agriculture Spring, 2014

Louisiana Agriculture

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Creole & Multiracial (Research Report #122), Michael Cope, Nile Patterson, Mark Schafer, Dari Green, Amanda Cowley, Troy Blanchard

LSU AgCenter Research Reports

This is the eighth in this series of reviews. This review focuses primarily on the Creoles. It also describes some multiracial groups with a historical presence, as well as the current trends in multiracial identity in the Gulf of Mexico region. Concentrated in coastal Louisiana, Creoles represent one of the larger and more well-known multiracial (or mixed-race) groups that have long histories in the region.

Rope, Dylan Evers

Honors Capstones

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Faculty Senate Newsletter, March 2014, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: A temptation for the writer of a “welcome” column to a journal of academic controversy is to win faculty sympathy by selecting the error or abuse of the month and then targeting the perpetrators in some or other corner of the administration. Although it is true that Louisiana higher education suffers from frustrated and stymied as well as from less than altruistic management, it is also true that, up and down the state, faculty members avoid the exercise of assorted options that could make matters better. Given the slow flow of information in secrecy-obsessed Louisiana, it is …

Notes On Bird Species In Bamboo In Northern Madre De Dios, Peru, Including The First Peruvian Record Of Acre Tody-Tyrant (Hemitriccus Cohnhafti), Michael G. Harvey, Daniel F. Lane, Justin Hite, Ryan S. Terrill, Sheila Figueroa Ramírez, Brian Tilston Smith, John Klicka, Walter Vargas Campos

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

In the southwestern Amazon Basin, large areas of habitat are comprised predominantly of Guadua bamboo. Many bird species occur in or specialize on Guadua-dominated habitats, but little is known about the taxonomy, distribution, and evolutionary history of this avian assemblage. During 2011, we surveyed the surroundings of Iberia, an area with many large Guadua stands in the southern Peruvian Amazon. We found many Guadua specialist bird species and discovered a surprising Andean element to the local avifauna. We present information on Guadua specialists, Andean species, birds of open habitats, and avian migration and reproduction. We provide accounts for species …

Gumbo Yearbook, Class Of 2014, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

Gumbo Yearbook

The Gumbo yearbook chronicles the entire academic year at LSU. In words and especially photos, the Gumbo shows the people, places, and events that make each year unique. In addition to formal portraits of schools and departments, the book contains hundreds of snapshots of students with their friends and dozens of pages showcasing organizations.

Civil War Treasures: Party Planning: St. Landry Parish, Radical Republicans, And The Vote For The 1867 Constitutional Convention, Tara Laver

Civil War Book Review

With recent Congressional primaries in the news and the mid-term elections heating up, this issue's "Treasures" column focuses on a document of a political nature discovered as we digitized and cataloged materials as part of the digital project "Free People of Color in Louisiana: Revealing an Unknown Past." In April 2013, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a grant to the LSU Libraries Special Collections to create a collaborative digital collection that would bring together archival collections related to free people of color in Louisiana and the lower Mississippi Valley held by LSU, the Historical Center at the Louisiana …

A Late Encounter With The Civil War, Brian Jordan

Civil War Book Review

A Study of how we Remember

In this slender volume, a revised version of his Lamar Memorial Lectures at Mercer University, Michael Kreyling offers a probing examination of the complex ways Americans have grappled with the memory and meaning of the Civil War. The author, a professor of....

Gallant Creoles: A History Of The Donaldsonville Canonniers, Stephen S. Michot

Civil War Book Review

Study of a Little Known Louisiana Unit

Gallant Creoles is an ambitious retelling of Civil War experiences of a Confederate artillery unit organized from a small Mississippi River town in south Louisiana. Using an abundance of archival letters, diaries, regimentals, newspapers, and....

The Yellowhammer War: The Civil War And Reconstruction In Alabama, T. Michael Parrish

Civil War Book Review

New Scholarship on the Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama

This volume features fourteen excellent essays, replete with full endnotes, by talented scholars who together present a sharp and challenging picture of Alabama during the Civil War era. The product of impressive organizationa....

Music Along The Rapidan: Civil War Soldiers, Music, And Community During Winter Quarters, Virginia, Candace Bailey

Civil War Book Review

Considering the Historical Context of American’s Musical Experience

Books on Civil War music and related topics occupy a substantial percentage of the retail market on American music of the nineteenth century, as the more general “Civil War" looms large. Indeed, the existence of this journ....

Ruminant Self-Medication Against Gastrointestinal Nematodes: Evidence, Mechanism, And Origins Ẫ†, Juan J. Villalba, James Miller, Eugene D. Ungar, Serge Y. Landau, John Glendinning

Faculty Publications

Gastrointestinal helminths challenge ruminants in ways that reduce their fitness. In turn, ruminants have evolved physiological and behavioral adaptations that counteract this challenge. Ruminants display anorexia and avoidance behaviors, which tend to reduce the incidence of parasitism. In addition, ruminants appear to learn to self-medicate against gastrointestinal parasites by increasing consumption of plant secondary compounds with antiparasitic actions. This selective feeding improves health and fitness. Here, we review the evidence for self-medication in ruminants, propose a hypothesis to explain self-medicative behaviors (based on post-ingestive consequences), and discuss mechanisms (e.g., enhanced neophilia, social transmission) that may underlie the ontogeny and spread …

Implementing Renaissance Literature And Close Reading Into Gifted And Talented High School Curriculums, Ashley Thibodeau

Honors Capstones

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Social Media And The Church, Danielle Nicolette Kelley

Honors Capstones

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Louisiana Agriculture Winter, 2014

Louisiana Agriculture

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Functional Characterization Of Chemosensory Proteins In The Scarab Beetle, Holotrichia Oblita Faldermann (Coleoptera: Scarabaeida), Hongyan Sun, Li Guan, Honglin Feng, Jiao Yin, Yazhong Cao, Jinghui Xi, Kebin Li

Faculty Publications

Chemosensory proteins (CSPs) play important roles in chemical communication by insects, as they recognize and transport environmental chemical signals to receptors within sensilla. In this study, we identified HoblCSP1 and HoblCSP2 from a cDNA library of Holotrichia oblita antennae, successfully expressed them in E. coli and purified them by Ni ion affinity chromatography. We then measured the ligand-binding specificities of HoblCSP1 and Hobl CSP2 to 50 selected ligands in a competitive binding assay. These results demonstrated that HoblCSP1 and HoblCSP2 have similar ligand-binding spectra. Both proteins displayed the highest affinity for β-ionone, α-ionone and cinnamaldehyde, indicating that they prefer binding …

Components, Volume 10 (2014), Lsu Center For Computation And Technology

Components

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Task Shifting Interventions For Cardiovascular Risk Reduction In Low-Income And Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review Of Randomised Controlled Trials, Gbenga Ogedegbe, Joyce Gyamfi, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Alisa Surkis, Diana Margot Rosenthal, Collins Airhihenbuwa, Juliet Iwelunmor, Richard Cooper

Faculty Publications

Objective: To evaluate evidence from published randomised controlled trials (RCTs) for the use of taskshifting strategies for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk reduction in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Design: Systematic review of RCTs that utilised a task-shifting strategy in the management of CVD in LMICs. Data Sources: We searched the following databases for relevant RCTs: PubMed from the 1940s, EMBASE from 1974, Global Health from 1910, Ovid Health Star from 1966, Web of Knowledge from 1900, Scopus from 1823, CINAHL from 1937 and RCTs from ClinicalTrials.gov. Eligibility criteria for selecting studies: We focused on RCTs published in English, but without …

The Dangers Of Unlimited Access: Fiction, The Internet And The Social Construction Of Childhood., Suzanne Marie Stauffer

Faculty Publications

At the beginning of the twentieth century, librarians, teachers, and parentswrote about the dangers to children of unlimited access towhatwas termed “sensational literature.” At the beginning of the next century, they struggled to deal with the dangers to children of unlimited access to the Internet. Although separated by a hundred years, they appear to be makingmuch the same argument about themuch the same issue, that of the public library providing unlimited access tominors towhat some viewas inappropriate or dangerousmaterials. However, a closer analysis of the discourse in the professional media regarding these two controversies, one that investigates the mechanisms underlying …

Lsu General Catalog 2014-2015, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

LSU General Catalog

The LSU General Catalog describes all undergraduate and graduate departments and programs with degree requirements and courses offered for each one. The LSU General Catalog includes information on registration and financial aid as well as academic services offered to all students.

Systematics Of The Obligate Ant-Following Clade Of Antbirds (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae), Morton L. Isler, Gustavo A. Bravo, Robb T. Brumfield

Faculty Publications

© 2014 by the Wilson Ornithological Society. Results of a comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the family Thamnophilidae were consistent with earlier findings that almost all obligate army-ant-followers of the family form a monophyletic group that contains five well-supported clades and encompasses six currently recognized genera: Phaenostictus, Pithys, Willisornis, Gymnopithys, Rhegmatorhina, and Phlegopsis. A comparative analysis of seven suites of morphological, behavioral, and ecological traits within the context of the phylogeny reinforced the validity of five of these genera, but results for the sixth, Gymnopithys, were internally inconsistent and required the description of a new genus, Oneillornis.

A Twisted Dimer Model For Knots, Moshe Cohen, Oliver T. Dasbach, Heather M. Russell

Faculty Publications

We develop a dimer model for the Alexander polynomial of a knot. This recovers Kauffman's state sum model for the Alexander polynomial using the language of dimers. By providing some additional structure we are able to extend this model to give a state sum formula for the twisted Alexander polynomial of a knot depending on a representation of the knot group.

Living Hell: The Dark Side Of The Civil War, Thomas E. Rodgers

Civil War Book Review

Reexamining the Horrors of the Civil War

Living Hell is the latest book by military historian Michael C. C. Adams, a professor emeritus of Northern Kentucky University. Adams has published a similarly themed book on World War II, as well as three other military tomes on various con....

Parisian Sacred Space In L.-S. Mercier's Tableau De Paris, Michael Mulryan

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Robert Dodsley Eighteenth-Century Play Collector And Theater Historian, John Pruitt

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Caricaturing The Vanity Of Human Prayer In Juvenal, Dryden, And Johnson The Ups And Downs Of Poetic Imitation, John J. Burke Jr.

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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