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Faculty Senate Newsletter, Holiday 2011, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: With the arrival of the Advent season comes the temptation to make lists. Universities and their assorted faculty, political, and professional leaders rejoice in lists, whether the ranking lists published by US News and World Report or Kiplinger’s or the eruditionflaunting lists more commonly known as curriculum vitae or the lists of problems with so many aspects of academic life that everyone carries in the ever-running journal of his or her mind. Among the most salient lists are those enumerating the parties responsible for the decay of education in Louisiana. Compiling a list of those who have …

Competencies: A Cure For Pre-Med Curriculum, Winston A. Anderson, Richard M. Amasino, Manuel Ares, Utpal Banerjee, Bonnie Bartel, Victor G. Corces, Catherine L. Drennan, Sarah C.R. Elgin, Irving R. Epstein, Ellen Fanning, Louis J. Guillette, J. O. Handelsman, Graham F. Hatfull, Ronald Raymond Hoy, Darcy Kelley, Leslie A. Leinwand, Richard Losick, Yi Lu, David G. Lynn, Claudia Neuhauser, Diane K. O'Dowd, Toto Olivera, Pavel Pevzner, Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum, Jasper Rine, Robert L. Sah, Scott A. Strobel, Graham C. Walker, David R. Walt, Isiah M. Warner, Sue Wessler, Huntington F. Willard, Richard N. Zare

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Down Regulation Of A Gene For Cadherin, But Not Alkaline Phosphatase, Associated With Cry1ab Resistance In The Sugarcane Borer Diatraea Saccharalis, Yunlong Yang, Yu Cheng Zhu, James Ottea, Claudia Husseneder, B. Rogers Leonard, Craig Abel, Randall Luttrell, Fangneng Huang

Faculty Publications

The sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis, is a major target pest of transgenic corn expressing Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) proteins (i.e., Cry1Ab) in South America and the mid-southern region of the United States. Evolution of insecticide resistance in such target pests is a major threat to the durability of transgenic Bt crops. Understanding the pests' resistance mechanisms will facilitate development of effective strategies for delaying or countering resistance. Alterations in expression of cadherin- and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) have been associated with Bt resistance in several species of pest insects. In this study, neither the activity nor gene regulation of ALP was associated …

Faculty Senate Newsletter, October 2011, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: Once upon a time, assumptions were events that happened in monasteries, convents, and, occasionally, martyr scenes. In later, more corrupt times, assumptions transpired in mortgage broker offices. Nowadays, in our slickly cynical period, the literal meaning of the term—the taking up [of whatever happens to be in the vicinity]—has returned with a vengeance as academe allows itself to draw in a steady stream of unexamined postulates. At the upper end of the assumption hierarchy are the nostrums promulgated by the ever coming-and-going political figures who allegedly lead higher education from Regents’ offices, legislative chambers, and occasionally the …

The Relation Between Children‟S Socio-Economic Status And Their Performance On The Passive Subtest Of The Diagnostic Evaluation Of Language Variation – Norm Referenced, Maggie Faulk Deville

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Lsu Research Fall 2011, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

Research Magazine

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

Pharmacokinetic Pilot Study Of The Antiangiogenic Activity Of Standardized Platycodi Radix, Emma M. Twiner, Zhijun Liu, Jeffrey Gimble, Ying Yu, Frank Greenway

Faculty Publications

Introduction: Platycodi radix is a radish used in food, such as Korean kimchi, and has been shown to cause weight loss in rodents. Platycodin D is considered its active ingredient and has been shown to inhibit lipases. The authors hypothesized that platycodi radix and the platycodin D it contains inhibit angiogenesis; another mechanism for weight loss. Methods: This study tested platycodi radix extract, platycodin D, and an extract of platycodi radix standardized to platycodin D for their ability to inhibit angiogenesis in a human adipose tissue assay. This study treated five healthy volunteers, orally, with platycodi radix extract standardized to …

F11rs Sgr No. 2 (Foreign Lang), Caffarel

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To urge and request the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature and the Department of French Studies to cease utilizing online tools for homework and to provide cheaper options for class materials

Faculty Senate Newsletter, September 2011, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: It would be fair enough to borrow from Shakespeare and proclaim the long budget crisis, which bodes to run from 2008 until 2013, as the fully nuclear winter of our discontent. Alas for the spirits of sorrow, the perpetual summer of our tropical state leaves us without adequate imagery to describe the gloom that pervades a campus that has been daunted by the people’s penury and demoralized by unaccountable private critics of exposed public servants. As Shakespeare well understood when he analyzed King Richard III, the deformity of the world eventually deforms even the strongest soul. Several …

Children's Relative Clause Markers In Two Non-Mainstream Dialects Of English, Janna B. Oetting, Brandi L. Newkirk

Faculty Publications

We examined children's productions of mainstream and non-mainstream relative clause markers (e.g. that, who, which, what, where, Ø) in African American English (AAE) and Southern White English (SWE) as a function of three linguistic variables (syntactic role of the marker, humanness of the antecedent and adjacency of the noun phrase head). The data were language samples from 99 typically developing 46-year-olds: 61 spoke AAE and 38 spoke SWE. The majority of the children's relative clauses included mainstream markers. Non-mainstream markers were rare, with 36% involving Ø subjects and 2% involving what. The children produced who exclusively as subjects and with …

Unsupervised Semantic Classification Methods, John Gilmer

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No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Resolution 11-10, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Faculty Senate Resolution on the working conditions of instructors, adopted on May 4, 2011.

Faculty Senate Newsletter, May 2011, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: Contradictions are easy to find. One need only listen to the prattle at the state capitol about workforce development and then look at the support for any step along the K–20 educational pilgrimage to find stark contrasts. It is simple enough to survey any campus, compare the actions against the capacities and against the habits of assorted administrators, and come to the conclusion that confusion, if not hypocrisy, rules the academic world. That recognition, along with the proverbial twenty-five cents, will get you the stirring stick for a far pricier coffee. The question that might be asked, …

How Ordinary Objects Become Extraordinary: Artcurial And The Brancusi Sale, Marie Katherine Perret

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No abstract provided.

Puritan Self-Examination Solitude And Relationship In The Devotional Literature Of The New England Puritans, Christine Pyle

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No abstract provided.

Threads: A Collection Of Short Stories, Samantha Alleman

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No abstract provided.

I Will Return As Millions: Bolivia’S Experiment With Neoliberalism And Decentralization, James Stowe

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No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Minority Status And Language Fluency On Vietnamese Asian Americans In The Predominately English-Speaking American Workplace, Lily L. Truong

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No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Newsletter, April 2011, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: In my last “welcome” column, I addressed the question of Louisiana universities after the economic crisis, suggesting a variety of adjustments that would increase morale and promote economic justice in institutions that reward fashion and momentary stellar performances more often than they recognize adventurous dissent or long-term projects. Although not inexhaustible, the topic of higher education after our present calamities merits a bit more consideration, especially with regard to structural changes that might advance our institution even in the midst of economic distress. Having commenced its career as the cultural equivalent of a fortification, LSU has always …

An Examination Into Fundamental Attunements: Anxiety, Boredom, Depression, And Joy, John Milligan

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No abstract provided.

Attitudes Toward Education: Parental Involvement And Family Structure, Claire Hanchey

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No abstract provided.

“Media Representations Of Disabled Persons: A Content Analysis Of Disabled Characters On Network Television Shows In The United States From 2008 To The Present”, Rachel Miller

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No abstract provided.

Passive Participle Marking By African American English-Speaking Children Reared In Poverty, Sonja L. Pruitt, Janna B. Oetting, Michael Hegarty

Faculty Publications

Purpose: In this study, the authors examined the linguistic profile of African American English (AAE)-speaking children reared in poverty by focusing on their marking of passive participles and by comparing the results with the authors' previous study of homophonous forms of past tense (S. Pruitt & J. Oetting, 2009). Method: The data were from 45 five- to six-year-olds who spoke AAE and who participated in the authors' earlier study. Fifteen were classified as low-income (LSES); the others were classified as middle-income and served as either age- or language-matched controls. The data came from a probe that was designed by S. …

Rice Response To Nitrogen Fertilization Under Stale Seedbed And Conventional Tillage Systems, D. L. Harrell, B. S. Tubaña, J. Lofton, Y. Kanke

Faculty Publications

Drill-seeded, delayed-flood rice (Oryza sativa L.) using fall-stale seedbed (FSS) tillage has risen in popularity over the past decade in the southern USA. Nitrogen research in rice has historically focused on conventional tillage (CT). The objective of the current study was to evaluate potential diff erences in agronomic characteristics, optimal N rate, N uptake, and N fertilizer recovery efficiency (RE) between the FSS and CT rice production systems. Two varieties ('Catahoula' and 'Neptune'), two tillage systems (CT and FSS), and nine N rates (0, 34, 67, 101, 134, 168, 202, 235, and 269 kg ha-1) were evaluated. Rice emerged 4 …

Faculty Senate Newsletter, February 2011, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from the President: Spring is the season in which metamorphoses routinely occur. It might also be a good time to consider the control that a dark old demon called habit can exert in even the bright days of renewal. Those who seldom sally through the ramparts of the many Boyd Halls and those who see the necessity of quick and often excruciating decisions by the administration may not see the grip that habit exerts not on any one campus executive but on the culture of administration as a whole. The most obvious and often the most prestigious form of …

Faculty Senate Resolution 10-19, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Faculty Senate Resolution regarding new College Preparatory Core for admission to LSU, adopted on January 20, 2011.

The Reconstruction Of Mark Twain: How A Confederate Bushwhacker Became The Lincoln Of Our Literature, Jack P. Maddex

Civil War Book Review

The Civil War Influence on an American Literary Icon

In his 1953 book The Civil War, the southern writer James Street counter-intuitively selected Mark Twain as “My Favorite Confederate." Few others have made strong connections between Twain and the Southern Confederacy. Now, in ....

The Last Battle Of The Civil War: United States Versus Lee, 1861 1883, Richard Allen Gerber

Civil War Book Review

Investigating the Legal Legacy of the Civil War

On May 15, 1883, the United States government paid George Washington Custis Lee, son of Robert E. Lee and Mary Lee, the sum of $150,000 to purchase the title to the 1100 acre Arlington estate seized by Union troops under President Lincoln’....

Civil War Humor, T. Harrell Allen

Civil War Book Review

The Civil War in Cartoons

Every year numerous articles and books come out on the Civil War and many of them add little in the way of new and significant information, however, some do and one of these is Civil War Humor by Cameron C. Nickels (2010). Little has been published on t....

Faculty Senate Newsletter, January 2011, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from the President: Brutus, when consigning Caesar to eternity, seeks attention from friends, Romans, and countrymen, asking them to lend him their ears. Had he been living in Baton Rouge in 2011, he might well have added to that list “coalitions,” the Flagship Coalition being the newest among the many supporters and compatriots seeking citizenship in the Tiger Empire. Brutus, of course, was himself not the most dependable of friends; he called for numerous “ears” knowing well that listening would be a wise strategy in turbulent times. He offered a list of affiliated parties—friends, Romans, and countrymen— suspecting that …