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Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic, Hugh Ruppersburg

Civil War Book Review

The Literary Value of Mary Chestnut

What Is A Gaussian State?, K R Parthasarathy

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.

A Gendered Profession Chaucer‟S Prioress As A Satirical Representation Of Medieval Female Monasticism, Laura Godfrey

Honors Capstones

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The Young Adult Speaks For Herself: My Reading Of Modern Criticism And The Twilight Saga, Elizabeth Spence

Honors Capstones

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Mothers’ Speech To Infants With And Without Down Syndrome, Christina M. Gary

Honors Capstones

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Embodying The Current Middle Ages: Gender And Performance In The Society For Creative Anachronism, Chelsea Lewis

Honors Capstones

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The Moroccan Struggle For Media Development, Margaret Looney

Honors Capstones

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Reforming Indigent Defense For Capital Defendants In Louisiana, Jessica L. Swiney

Honors Capstones

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Genome-Wide Association Of Anthropometric Traits In African- And African-Derived Populations, Sun J. Kang, Charleston W.K. Chiang, Cameron D. Palmer, Bamidele O. Tayo, Guillaume Lettre, Johannah L. Butler, Rachel Hackett, Adebowale A. Adeyemo, Candace Guiducci, Ilze Berzins, Thutrang T. Nguyen, Tao Feng, Amy Luke, Daniel Shriner, Kristin Ardlie, Charles Rotimi, Rainford Wilks, Terrence Forrester, Colin A. Mckenzie, Helen N. Lyon, Richard S. Cooper, Xiaofeng Zhu, Joel N. Hirschhorn

Faculty Publications

Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have identified common variants that are associated with a variety of traits and diseases, but most studies have been performed in European-derived populations. Here, we describe the first genome-wide analyses of imputed genotype and copy number variants (CNVs) for anthropometric measures in African-derived populations: 1188 Nigerians from Igbo-Ora and Ibadan, Nigeria, and 743 African-Americans from Maywood, IL. To improve the reach of our study, we used imputation to estimate genotypes at ~2.1 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and also tested CNVs for association. No SNPs or common CNVs reached a genome-wide significance level for association with height …

Faculty Senate Newsletter, April 2010, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from the President: For the last several months, members of the extended LSU community have hopped from big issue to big issue, from hope to fear to anxiety, and on to occasional relief. Although the very big issue of the higher education budget will occupy us for months to come, it is important to remember the many smaller items that support or otherwise accumulate into the gigantic challenges that we face today. So it is that, in the wake of the Louisiana Postsecondary Review Council, with its disappointing recommendation that all four year institutions capitulate to a single “superboard,” …

Clay Mineral Evolution In The Central Okinawa Trough Since 28 Ka: Implications For Sediment Provenance And Paleoenvironmental Change, Yanguang Dou, Shouye Yang, Zhenxia Liu, Peter D. Clift, Hua Yu, Serge Berne, Xuefa Shi

Faculty Publications

The Okinawa Trough is a natural laboratory for the study of later Quaternary land-ocean interaction and paleoenvironmental changes. In this study we reconstruct the evolution of clay mineral assemblages in Core DGKS9604 retrieved from the central Okinawa Trough. Illite dominates the clay mineral compositions, with average contents above 60%. Clay mineral evolution since 28 ka is closely related to changes in sediment provenance and paleoenvironment. Sea level rise and the strength of the Kuroshio Current control the dispersal and deposition of clays on the East China Sea shelf and in the Okinawa Trough, and thus, determine the clay mineral compositions …

Sea Of Broken Things, Laura Elizabeth Smith

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Newsletter, February 2010, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: This second issue of the Faculty Senate Newsletter comes with thanks for the favorable reception offered to the first installment. Already the breadth and variety of offerings is growing. This month, we add an“Education Opinion” area. All colleagues are invited to submit letters or brief statements of opinion on matters of academic or institutional policy. This issue of the newsletter also introduces reportage by our graduate assistants, Greg Molchan and Casey Kayser, who covered the recent Faculty Senate-Chancellor Forum, and continues our monthly “Administrator in the Spotlight”feature. Readers of this issue will discover a wide range of …

Gumbo Yearbook, Class Of 2010, 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.

The 2010 Gumbo was published with a DVD containing a video yearbook, as well as a PDF. Those files are linked below.

Renegotiating Barbuda's Commons: Recent Changes In Barbudan Open-Range Cattle Herding, Andrew Sluyter, Amy E. Potter

Faculty Publications

Barbuda remains little developed and sparsely populated relative to its neighbors in the Leeward Lesser Antilles, a rather extraordinary and relatively unknown Caribbean place. Much of its distinctiveness derives from the communal land-tenure system, itself rooted in three centuries of open-range cattle herding. Yet, as revealed through interviews, newspaper archives, and landscape observations, openrange cattle herding has declined over the past three decades, with related changes in land tenure. As the new Barbuda Land Act came into effect in 2008, codifying the communal tenure system, the very landscape elements that manifest open-range herding have become obscure. In particular, the rock-walled …

The Hispanic Atlantic's Tasajo Trail, Andrew Sluyter

Faculty Publications

Produced along the Río de la Plata during the nineteenth century, shipped to Havana, and consumed by African slaves, the salt-cured beef known as tasajo affected both of those places and, to some degree, the Atlantic world in general. Initial exploration of the tasajo trail that connected Buenos Aires and Cuba employs primary sources such as nineteenth-century descriptions and shipping records to characterize the landscapes, places, routes, and agents of the largely unexplored research territory of that anomalous commodity: one that, unlike others such as sugar, slaves not only produced but also consumed; one that underpinned more prominent, latitudinal transatlantic …

A Phylogenetic Approach To Disentangling The Role Of Competition And Habitat Filtering In Community Assembly Of Neotropical Forest Birds, Juan Pablo Gómez, Gustavo A. Bravo, Robb T. Brumfield, José G. Tello, Carlos Daniel Cadena

Faculty Publications

Methods that assess patterns of phylogenetic relatedness, as well as character distribution and evolution, allow one to infer the ecological processes involved in community assembly. Assuming niche conservatism, assemblages should shift from phylogenetic clustering to evenness with decreasing geographic scale because the relative importance of mechanisms that shape assemblages is hypothesized to be scale-dependent. Whereas habitat filtering is more likely to act at regional scales because of increased habitat heterogeneity that allows sorting of ecologically similar species in contrasting environments, competition is more likely to act at local scales because low habitat heterogeneity provides few opportunities for niche partitioning. We …

Third-Wave Feminism In Select Young Adult Literature, Colleen Mckinney

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Components, Volume 6 (2010), Lsu Center For Computation & Technology

Components

No abstract provided.

School Of Renewable Natural Resources Newsletter, Fall 2010, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

Research Matters & RNR Newsletters

The annual newsletter from the School of Renewable Natural Resources was a publication which aimed to update and entertain interested readers with the news and research from RNR faculty, students and staff.

Olaudah Equiano, Autobiography, And Ideas Of Culture, Sarah Brophy

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

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Le France De Pompignan Discovers Muscularity, Theodore E.D. Braun

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

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Can Women And Men Be Friends? Writings On Friendship In France's Ancien Regima And C.B. Fagan's Comedy L'Amitie Rivale De L'Amour, E. Joe Johnson

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

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Did Jane Know Jack Tar? Assessing The Significance Of Austen's Other Navy, Robert G. Dryden

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

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The Dynamics Of Goethe's Novelle The Never-Ending Journey To Newton's Burg, Heather I. Sullivan

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

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Book Reviews

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

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Adorning The Plainness Of Truth Equiano And The Art Of Narrative, Shaun Regan

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

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"Sickness Among The Slaves" Undermining Pathologies Of The African In Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative, Tara Czechowski

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

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Olaudah Equiano African Or American?, Brycchan Carey

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

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Draganski And Schafer: A Perspective On Works For Voice And Woodwind Quintet, Susan Elizabeth Ruggiero

LSU Major Papers

The purpose of this document is to explore the relationship between voice and woodwind quintet by examining two prominent multi-movement works in the repertoire, Minnelieder: Love Songs from the Medieval German for mezzo soprano and wind quintet by R. Murray Schafer and Six Songs on Mother Goose Rhymes for soprano and woodwind by Donald Draganski. A secondary aim is to impart greater awareness and understanding of works for voice and woodwind quintet. Music for this combination is largely unknown and neglected, yet this subgenre of vocal chamber music has several works by twentieth and twenty-first century composers worthy of attention. …