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Understanding Urban Education, Emily Watkins

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Behind The Hijab, A Narrative On The Muslim Presence In Britain In The Postwar Era, Cassidy Alexandra Von Springer

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

C. S. Lewis: The Art And Power Of Mythopoeia, Megan Joy Rials

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Children's Marking Of Verbal -S By Nonmainstream English Dialect And Clinical Status, Lesli H. Cleveland, Janna B. Oetting

Faculty Publications

Purpose: Children's marking of verbal -s was examined by their dialect (African American English [AAE] vs. Southern White English [SWE]) and clinical status (specific language impairment [SLI] vs. typically developing [TD]) and as a function of 4 linguistic variables (verb regularity, negation, expression of a habitual activity, and expression of historical present tense). Method: The data were language samples from 57 six-year-olds who varied by their dialect and clinical status (AAE: SLI = 14, TD = 12; SWE: SLI = 12, TD = 19). Results: The AAE groups produced lower rates of marking than did the SWE groups, and the …

Lsu Research Fall 2013, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

Research Magazine

LSU Research is published annually by the Office of Research & Economic Development, Louisiana State University.

Faculty Senate Newsletter, October 2013, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: A new shibboleth among the higher education leadership caste is that the good old days of ample state funding and generous budgets are “never coming back.” Few leaders of American public higher education systems or institutions challenge this seemingly intuitive axiom; none dare risk the loss of legislative or occasionally gubernatorial pity by expressing even a shred of optimism. The embrace of this apparent axiom—the incantation of the gloom-and-doom mantra as a peculiar status symbol indicating sophistication and membership in the highly briefed if not all-knowing leadership in-group—demonstrates the increasing naiveté among the professionalized leadership clique that …

African Americans (Research Report #121), Nile Patterson, Mark J. Schafer, Troy Blanchard

LSU AgCenter Research Reports

From the early 18th century to now, African-Americans have lived in Louisiana and the other Gulf states and played an integral role in shaping the linguistic and cultural traditions of the region. The seventh in the series discusses the experiences of African-Americans in the region.

Two New Species Of Eimeria Schneider, 1875 (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) From Emerald Tree Skinks, Lamprolepis Smaragdina (Lesson) (Sauria: Scincidae) From Papua New Guinea And The Philippines, Chris T. Mcallister, R. Scott Seville, Donald W. Duszynski, Sarah E. Bush, Robert N. Fisher, Christopher C. Austin

Faculty Publications

Two new species of Eimeria Schneider, 1875, from emerald tree skinks, Lamprolepis smaragdina (Lesson) are described from specimens collected in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the Philippines. Oöcysts of Eimeria nuiailan n. sp. from the only L. smaragdina from PNG are ovoidal, with a smooth, colourless, bi-layered wall, measure 23.7 × 19.1 μm, and have a length/width (L/W) ratio of 1.3; both micropyle and oöcyst residuum are absent, but a fragmented polar granule is present. Sporocysts are ovoidal to ellipsoidal, 11.9 × 7.0 μm, L/W 1.7, and the wall is composed of two valves joined by a longitudinal suture; neither …

On Optimal Proportional Reinsurance And Investment In A Partial Markovian Regime-Switching Economy, Xin Zhang

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.

Adaptation And The Physiology Of Ocean Acidification, Morgan W. Kelly, Gretchen E. Hofmann

Faculty Publications

Ocean acidification, caused by the uptake of atmospheric CO2, is a threat to marine biodiversity, potentially rivalling the threat imposed by rising temperatures in some marine ecosystems. Although a growing body of literature documents negative effects of acidification on marine organisms, the majority of this work has focused on the effects of future conditions on modern populations, ignoring the potential effects of adaptation and physiological acclimatization. We review current literature on the potential for adaptation to elevated pCO2 in marine organisms. Although this body of work is currently quite small, we argue that data on the physiological effects of acidification, …

Systematic Review Of Three Decades Of Spanish Cardiovascular Epidemiology: Improving Translation For A Future Of Prevention, Manuel Franco, Usama Bilal, Eliseo Guallar, Ginés Sanz, Alicia F. Gómez, Valentín Fuster, Richard Cooper

Faculty Publications

Background: In order to improve national cardiovascular disease (CVD) epidemiology and prevention, we systematically reviewed and analyzed the relevant literature produced in the last three decades for Spain. Design: Systematic Review. Methods: We searched for all the articles aiming to monitor CVD clinical endpoints and risk factors in the Spanish general population that were indexed in MEDLINE and EMBASE. Based on international recommendations, we analyzed each article with a three-level scoring system (low to high) for the following criteria: data quality, representativeness and translation of results into preventive interventions. Results: We reviewed 2565 articles, selecting 314 for in-depth analysis. Articles …

Polar Codes For Degradable Quantum Channels, Mark M. Wilde, Saikat Guha

Faculty Publications

Channel polarization is a phenomenon in which a particular recursive encoding induces a set of synthesized channels from many instances of a memoryless channel, such that a fraction of the synthesized channels becomes near perfect for data transmission and the other fraction becomes near useless for this task. Mahdavifar and Vardy have recently exploited this phenomenon to construct codes that achieve the symmetric private capacity for private data transmission over a degraded wiretap channel. In this paper, we build on their work and demonstrate how to construct quantum wiretap polar codes that achieve the symmetric private capacity of a degraded …

Linguistic Constraints On Children's Overt Marking Of Be By Dialect And Age, Joseph Roy, Janna B. Oetting, Christy Wynn Moland

Faculty Publications

Purpose: Overt marking of BE in nonmainstream adult dialects of English is influenced by a number of linguistic constraints, including the structure's person, number, tense, contractibility, and grammatical function. In the current study, the authors examined the effects of these constraints on overt marking of BE in children as a function of their nonmainstream English dialect and age. Method: The data were language samples from 62 children, ages 4-6 years; 24 children spoke African American English (AAE), and 38 spoke Southern White English (SWE). Analyses included analysis of variance and logistic regression. Results: Rates of overt marking varied by the …

Faculty Senate Newsletter, May 2013, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: Words are less the antonym than the diluted form of action. Nowhere do we see more action in the form of words than in the swirl of seeming inaction surrounding online education. Pundit-educators talk relentlessly about the tsunami of online offerings to come. Knowing the American love of things apocalyptic, they predict the inevitable closure of huge numbers of institutions. Yet, to date, no college or university seems to have shut down owing to online competition. Shares in companies holding online providers seem to fall; only near-bankrupt institutions such as Arizona State University seem to offer more …

The Morphological Evolution Of The Vocal Apparatus In The Human Lineage: Implications On The Emergence Of Language, Jacob Jesch

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Synthesis Of Porphyrin And Porphyrinoid Structures For Use In Binary Cancer Therapies: Fluorinated Porphyrin-Carborane As A Candidate For Boron Neutron Capture Therapy And Tetrabenzoporphyrin With Polyamine Conjugates As A Candidate For Photodynamic Therapy, Laura A. Clesi

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Native Americans (Research Report #120), Amanda D. Cowley, Mark J. Schafer, Troy Blanchard

LSU AgCenter Research Reports

This is the sixth in a series of reviews. This review discusses the experiences of Native Americans in the region – a group that was the foundation of the southeastern United States long before European or Spanish colonization. Although much of the documentation about American Indian history, migration and culture is fragmented, this group had substantial effects on the economy, culture and history of the southeastern United States.

Studies In The Novella, Lb Kovac

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Please Mind The Gap (Poems), Louis David Benedetto Iii

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of The Arab Spring On Security Concerns In Yemen: An Analysis Of The Houthis, The Southern Movement, And Al Qaeda In The Arabian Peninsula, Rachel Beard

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Evaluating The Grammars Of Children Who Speak Nonmainstream Dialects Of English, Janna B. Oetting, Ryan Lee, Karmen L. Porter

Faculty Publications

In this article, we review three responses to the study and evaluation of grammar in children who speak nonmainstream dialects of English. Then we introduce a fourth, system-based response that views nonmainstream dialects of English, such as African American English (AAE) and Southern White English (SWE) as made up of dialect-specific and dialect-universal features. To illustrate the usefulness of a system-based approach and to distinguish our two terms from others in the dialect literature, we present AAE and SWE relative clause data from two previously published studies. Following this, we present new findings from AAE- and SWE-speaking children's use of …

Blacks And Whites In The Cuba Have Equal Prevalence Of Hypertension: Confirmation From A New Population Survey, Pedro Ordúñez, Jay S. Kaufman, Mikhail Benet, Alain Morejon, Luis C. Silva, David A. Shoham, Richard S. Cooper

Faculty Publications

Background: The excess burden of hypertension among blacks has been a prominent feature of the heath disparities literature, and many scientists presume it to be a stable and inevitable phenomenon. The underlying causes of this disparity can only be disentangled in a setting in which the population does not experience racial stratification of socioeconomic opportunities. While such conditions of racial equality remain uncommon, they may be approximated in Cuba, a country with a persistent policy of social inclusion over the last 5 decades. Methods. We report on a 2010-2011 stratified probability sample of those aged 15-74 years from the urban …

A Modeling Study Of Seasonal Variations Of Sea Ice And Plankton In The Bering And Chukchi Seas During 2007-2008, J. Wang, H. Hu, J. Goes, J. Miksis-Olds, C. Mouw, E. D'Sa, H. Gomes, D.R. Wang, K. Mizobata, S.-I. Saitoh, L. Luo

Faculty Publications

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Slaves For Sale: Abolitionist Art And The American Slave Trade, Russel R. Menard

Civil War Book Review

Visual Representations of Slavery

Maurie McInnis, an art professor at the University of Virginia has written a rare book. In the first instance she has thrown fresh light on slavery and abolition, two much-studied topics. Secondly, she has produced a book that deserves considerable atte....

Cwbr Author Interview: Freedom National: The Destruction Of Slavery In The United States, 1861-1865, James Oakes

Civil War Book Review

Interview with James Oakes, Distinguished Professor of History and Graduate School Humanities Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center

Interviewed by Michael Frawley

Civil War Book Review (CWBR): Today, I'm discussing with Professor James Oakes his new published Freedom National: The Destruction of slavery in the United States, 1861-1865, which was recently awarded the 2013 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. Congratulations Dr. Oakes and thank you for joining us today. James Oakes (JO): Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here.

Civil War Treasures: Battle Of The Books: Fates Of The Printed Page In The Civil War, Michael Taylor

Civil War Book Review

The most horrific aspect of the Civil War was, of course, the 600,000 deaths that resulted from it. Many other terrible things, however, befell the nation during those years, not least of which was the destruction of books and libraries. Several copies of what is now one of the most valuable ....

Thomas Nast: The Father Of Modern Political Cartoons, Willard Klunder

Civil War Book Review

Drawing a New History of Political Cartooning

Fiona Deans Halloran, a history teacher at Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School in Salt Lake City, surveys the life and career of Thomas Nast, the famed nineteenth-century political cartoonist. Nast was born in Bavaria on September 27, 1840, and ....

Annotations, Cwbr Editor

Civil War Book Review

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Civil War Treasures:Wanderers Among The Ruins: A Southern Family's Life In England During The Civil War, Michael Taylor

Civil War Book Review

A prosperous Louisiana planter like George Otis Hall normally would have spent the month of February attending to his new sugar crop. In February 1862, however, Hall found himself not on the banks of the Mississippi, but on the banks of the River Wye, a broad, placid stream that forms the border bet....

Look At Lincoln: Lincoln And Liberalism, Frank Willams

Civil War Book Review

During our Abraham Lincoln spring, one cannot fail to notice the attention fixed on the 16th president who continues to preoccupy us through a wide variety of interpretations -- both popular and scholarly -- that pervade so many aspects of modern culture. This new and weighty book by John Burt, a P....