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Agricultural Terracing In The Fiji Islands. (Volumes I And Ii)., Robert Thomas Kuhlken Jan 1994

Agricultural Terracing In The Fiji Islands. (Volumes I And Ii)., Robert Thomas Kuhlken

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Agricultural terraces form a distinctive element in the cultural landscape of Fiji. These skillfully fashioned earthworks were developed for the irrigated cultivation of one specific cultigen--taro (Colocasia esculenta), a long domesticated edible aroid. Constructing pondfields on slopes represents an intensification of production, with taro yields responding favorably to higher levels of labor input. In Fiji, irrigated terraces on the leeward side of larger islands also served to overcome seasonal conditions of drought or soil moisture deficits. Nearly all of these intensive agrosystems have been abandoned. But the carefully sculpted hillsides endure, and serve as poignant reminders of past travail. Taro …

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Colonial Natal, 1838 To 1880: The Making Of A South African Settlementsystem. (Volumes I And Ii)., Darrell Peter Kruger Jan 1994

Colonial Natal, 1838 To 1880: The Making Of A South African Settlementsystem. (Volumes I And Ii)., Darrell Peter Kruger

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The study of colonial settlement policy is one way for human geographers to understand how people shape the places they inhabit. The major concern of this study was to determine the impact of Dutch-Afrikaner, Native, and British cultures on the Natal colonial settlement system between 1838 and 1879. A prolonged era (1844-1879) of British settlement policy was preceded by a brief period of Dutch-Afrikaner hegemony (1838-1843). I test the hypothesis that Natal's British settlement system was a syncretic compromise between European and South African (Native and Dutch-Afrikaner) adaptations. My interpretation turns on frontier processes of transfer and borrowing. I suggest …

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Geographical Factors Influencing The Rise And Growth Of Cotton Textile Manufacturing In The South Carolina Piedmont, 1880-1940. (Volumes I And Ii)., Gregory John Labyak Jan 1994

Geographical Factors Influencing The Rise And Growth Of Cotton Textile Manufacturing In The South Carolina Piedmont, 1880-1940. (Volumes I And Ii)., Gregory John Labyak

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Despite the South's defeat in the Civil War and the economic hardships occasioned by the conflict and its aftermath, Southerners possessed the resources and the enthusiasm to undertake an industrial campaign that greatly altered the economic course of their region. Industrial development in the South, centered largely on cotton textiles, focused on the Piedmont. The area possessed several advantages over other Southern subregions as a center of cotton manufacturing, but it failed to supply all of the raw material, capital, and labor needed by the rapidly-growing industry. This study examines the progress of cotton textile manufacturing in the South Carolina …

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The Influence Of Regional-Scale Circulation On Precipitation Variability In The Southern United States., Anthony Jude Vega Jan 1994

The Influence Of Regional-Scale Circulation On Precipitation Variability In The Southern United States., Anthony Jude Vega

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The proximity of the southern United States to large water bodies, mountain systems, and the arid climate of the desert southwest makes extended precipitation forecasts exceedingly difficult. In order to better understand the complex precipitation mechanisms, this analysis addresses the relationships between the regional-scale circulation and long-term precipitation variability and change in the southern US for each season through a 42 year study period. Five unique precipitation regions were created for each season, and seasonal anomalies were calculated and examined by region for changes in variability and slope through time. Long-term climate change was detected in the precipitation regions only …

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Surplus Labor And Mobility In Hebei, China: An Evaluation Of The Litu Bu Lixiang Approach., Chunxiao Li Jan 1994

Surplus Labor And Mobility In Hebei, China: An Evaluation Of The Litu Bu Lixiang Approach., Chunxiao Li

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The most fundamental economic reforms were introduced within the rural areas in China during the 1980s. The resulting greater efficiency in production, and the continued population growth have combined to result in a vast number of surplus laborers in rural areas. While concerned about the rural surplus labor problem, the Chinese government also determined to avoid mass rural-urban migration. In 1984, the Chinese Government promulgated a policy called litu bu lixiang (leave the land, but not the countryside). The basic idea is to absorb surplus labor through the retention of labor in the rural areas by creating non-agricultural opportunities. The …

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Lsu General Catalog 1993-1994, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College Jan 1993

Lsu General Catalog 1993-1994, 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 General Catalog includes information on registration and financial aid as well as academic services offered to all students.

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Hydrologic Modelling With A Spatial Database., Richard Gilbert Greene Jan 1993

Hydrologic Modelling With A Spatial Database., Richard Gilbert Greene

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Hydrologic modelling can be enhanced and improved through the utilization of a Geographic Information System (GIS). Information can be stored and analyzed by the tools available within a GIS to create a spatial database that realistically represents a watershed for hydrologic modelling. This study presents an approach whereby the data available in the GIS determine the modelling strategy. The soil, topography and land cover data for the watershed were analyzed with the spatial analysis tools of a GIS to determine the hydrologic response areas. The coordinate values that define the locations and boundaries of features in the GIS were used …

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Collaboration And Composition: Effects Of Group Structure On Writing And Classroom Dynamics., Carole Hecht Mcallister Jan 1993

Collaboration And Composition: Effects Of Group Structure On Writing And Classroom Dynamics., Carole Hecht Mcallister

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study of collaborative writing groups, those who share full responsibility for the production of a document, is (1) to measure the efficacy of using collaborative writing groups in a college level composition class (from the multi-perspectives of researcher, students, and teachers), and (2) to determine if students should remain in the same collaborative writing groups for an entire semester or for the duration of a writing project. My method of gathering and analyzing data integrated two social scientific research paradigms--a process-product, quantitative design, one which focused on measures of student writing performance, writing improvement, attitude, and …

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Geologic And Physical Processes At A Gulf Of Mexico Tidal Inlet, East Pass, Florida., Andrew Morang Jan 1993

Geologic And Physical Processes At A Gulf Of Mexico Tidal Inlet, East Pass, Florida., Andrew Morang

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

East Pass, a tidal inlet located in the Florida Panhandle between Pensacola and Panama City, connects Choctawhatchee Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. A three-phase model has been developed which describes the behavior of East Pass inlet during the last 120 years, based on wave, current, tide, bathymetric and shoreline data, and on historical records. The first phase (pre-1928) is of spit development and breaching. This phase covers the period when the pass was oriented in a northwest-southeast direction between Choctawhatchee Bay and the Gulf. From 1928 to 1968, the second phase was characterized by a stable throat position but …

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Effect Of The El Nino/Southern Oscillation On Gulf Of Mexico, Winter, Frontal-Wave Cyclones: 1960-1989. (Volumes I And Ii)., Rosemary Eileen Manty Jan 1993

Effect Of The El Nino/Southern Oscillation On Gulf Of Mexico, Winter, Frontal-Wave Cyclones: 1960-1989. (Volumes I And Ii)., Rosemary Eileen Manty

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Seasonal counts of frontal-wave cyclones forming over the Gulf of Mexico and its coastal plain show more storms in the five El Nino winters and fewer storms in the eight La Nina winters, from 1960 to 1989, significant at the.01 level by a rank sum test. This is corroborated by two results. First, during the same period, the frequency of frontal-overrunning weather conditions in the region, indicative of storms, was higher in El Nino winters and lower in La Nina winters, significant at the.05 level. Second, 100 years of precipitation and temperature records show wetter, cooler El Nino winters and …

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East Greenland Margin, H. C. Larsen, A. D. Saunders, P. Clift Jan 1993

East Greenland Margin, H. C. Larsen, A. D. Saunders, P. Clift

Faculty Publications

Leg 152 represents the second in an eight-leg program, proposed by the NARM-DPG, to investigate rifted margins. Four legs will be devoted to each margin type, volcanic and nonvolcanic. Leg 152, selected as first priority by the North Atlantic Rifted Margin Detailed Planning Group (NARM-DPG), will be the first leg to address processes at volcanic rifted margins by drilling a transect of proposed sites at 63°N, southeast Greenland. The southeast Greenland transect is located approximately 550 km south of the original center of the Iceland hotspot in a region of apparent structural simplicity, with a well-understood, simple plate kinematic history. …

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Peasant Subsistence In Northwestern Haiti: Geography, Cultural Ecology, And Rural Development., Edward Cameron Britton Jan 1993

Peasant Subsistence In Northwestern Haiti: Geography, Cultural Ecology, And Rural Development., Edward Cameron Britton

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Geographers are challenged to explain "the why of where." This study grapples with "whys" of peasant subsistence in contemporary rural Haiti. Cultural ecology, one of the fundamental themes in cultural geography, examines the interplay between cultural traditions and the realities of subsistence in a given physical environment. Haitian cultural traditions derive from a rich melange of folkways from West Africa, Indian Middle America, and Western Europe. The land is semiarid and hilly in Northwestern Haiti, the poorest, driest, and most sparsely settled of Haiti's provinces. Crops and livestock betray traditional preferences in foodways, and reveal much about the constraints of …

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A Southern Social Ethic: Political Economy In The Nineteenth-Century South. Mississippi, 1840-1910. (Volumes I And Ii)., Bradley G. Bond Jan 1993

A Southern Social Ethic: Political Economy In The Nineteenth-Century South. Mississippi, 1840-1910. (Volumes I And Ii)., Bradley G. Bond

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

As a study of the southern social ethic, this work discusses some of the most lasting themes of southern historiography: race and class, continuity and discontinuity. The social ethic might best be defined as a collection of ideas, at times contradictory, that suggest southerners' concepts of life in a good republic, citizenship, and proper economic behavior. It also examines the reality of life in a rural state as it experienced the process of modernization. The first third of the dissertation offers a definition of the social ethic. Liberty and virtue, white southerners believed, inhered in all who avoided enslavement, the …

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Performance And Organized Labor In Depression America: Community And Contestation. (Volumes I And Ii)., Kirk Wayne Fuoss Jan 1993

Performance And Organized Labor In Depression America: Community And Contestation. (Volumes I And Ii)., Kirk Wayne Fuoss

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study investigates the relationship among cultural performance, community, and contestation in two depression-era, organized labor social dramas. The major arguments developed in the study are summarized in the following three contentions. First, performances are inherently contestatory. Second, contestation and community stand in an interdependent rather than oppositional relationship to one another. Third, a dialectical relationship exists between performance and community whereby communities not only produce but are produced by performances. Chapter one defines key concepts and offers a rationale for the study. Two rationales for exploring the relationship among cultural performances, contestation, and community are advanced. First, despite the …

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Christianity And Social Power In The Works Of John Arden, British Dramatist., Donald Travis Sandley Jan 1993

Christianity And Social Power In The Works Of John Arden, British Dramatist., Donald Travis Sandley

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation examines the subject of political and social power in the plays and prose of John Arden and selected works co-authored by Arden and his wife, Margaretta D'Arcy. Particular focus is given to the institution of Christianity and how it may either be used as a tool for the maintenance of established authority or as a vehicle for rebellion. Arden's collected essays, along with a personal interview conducted in August of 1990, provide the starting point for a discussion of four specific works, pieces in which Arden most closely explores the political involvement of Christianity. These four works, The …

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Late-Holocene Vegetational History Of A Subtropical Mountain In Southeastern China., Hong-Lie Qiu Jan 1993

Late-Holocene Vegetational History Of A Subtropical Mountain In Southeastern China., Hong-Lie Qiu

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This research primarily examines the pollen evidence of vegetation change in the light of human disturbance in the subtropical mountains in southeastern China based on three sediment cores from the elongated peat-filled depressions in subalpine headwater zones (dambos) from the Daiyun Mountain Range of Fujian Province (approximately 25$\sp\circ 40\sp\prime$N, 118$\sp\circ 11\sp\prime$E). Twenty-four surface pollen samples collected from different locations in Fujian Province were included in this study intended to provide a better understanding of the relationships between vegetation and pollen rain in hilly areas, and the pollen signature of human disturbance. Analysis of pollen and sediment-stratigraphic data from this study …

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A Geoforensic Analysis Of State-Owned Waterbottoms In South Louisiana: Gauging The Geographical Impacts Of Louisiana Court Decisions. (Volumes I And Ii)., George Joseph Castille Iii Jan 1993

A Geoforensic Analysis Of State-Owned Waterbottoms In South Louisiana: Gauging The Geographical Impacts Of Louisiana Court Decisions. (Volumes I And Ii)., George Joseph Castille Iii

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The extent of State-owned waterbottoms in south Louisiana was examined through an analysis of Louisiana State court decisions. This analysis included court cases dating from 1812, the year of statehood, until 1992. Sample court cases were divided into groups representing some of the major issues involved in waterbottoms disputes for both coastal and inland areas. The nature of waterborne commerce was examined with an emphasis on identifying the types and sizes of watercraft used in commerce. The identification of waterborne commerce is important because the State owns the bottoms of all naturally formed navigable waterbodies, and navigability is determined by …

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Development And Evaluation Of An Expert System Approach To Uneven-Aged Management Of Loblolly-Shortleaf Pine Stands In The West Gulf Region., Alfredo Baptista Lorenzo Jan 1993

Development And Evaluation Of An Expert System Approach To Uneven-Aged Management Of Loblolly-Shortleaf Pine Stands In The West Gulf Region., Alfredo Baptista Lorenzo

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Forest managers expend significant time and effort seeking, organizing, and synthesizing information relevant to making effective forestry decisions. Oftentimes, they must rely on the knowledge and experience of human experts, a resource that is in short supply, requires many years to acquire, and is concentrated in a few individuals. This research task suggests expert systems as one viable solution to the problems of technology transfer and automating and maintaining expertise in consistent and usable form. Expert systems are practical computer programs which solve problems that were previously considered only solvable by human expertise. The expert system developed in this research, …

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Boardinghouses, Parties And The Creation Of A Political Society: Washington City, 1800-1830, Cynthia Diane Earman Nov 1992

Boardinghouses, Parties And The Creation Of A Political Society: Washington City, 1800-1830, Cynthia Diane Earman

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Washington's elite society was a political society where members of Congress, the president, members of his cabinet, Supreme Court justices, and members of the diplomatic corps met with members of the press, and other visitors to the capital, and long term residents came together to form a unique society. This study evolved from the premise that James Sterling Young's view of Washington City was flawed. Three questions guided this project: How did Washington change over time?; Why were specific boardinghouses chosen?; and What role did elite wives play in the Washington community? Washington's elite community was by definition a political …

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Faculty Senate Resolution 91-04, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Feb 1992

Faculty Senate Resolution 91-04, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Faculty Senate Resolution on the admission standards and honor committee, adopted on February 18, 1992.

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Community Versus The Imperial Mind: Images Of Civil Strife In Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun"., Henry Michael W Russell Jan 1992

Community Versus The Imperial Mind: Images Of Civil Strife In Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun"., Henry Michael W Russell

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun allegorically represents the crisis of civil order in the American Republic in the 1850s foreshadowing the Civil War that erupted a year after the novel's publication. Hawthorne's last completed romance, set in Rome, suggests Americans must judge themselves against the community and continuity embodied in the European culture they had recently cast off. Challenging Emerson's doctrine that man may have an original relationship to history and the Creator, Hawthorne undermines the Founders' great idea: that an assembly of men could discover and formulate--in an act of the human mind--self-evident, inalienable rights that govern political and …

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Fonctions De L'Ecriture Dans Les "Elements D'Ideologie" D'Antoine Destutt De Tracy., Fabrice Gerard Teulon Jan 1992

Fonctions De L'Ecriture Dans Les "Elements D'Ideologie" D'Antoine Destutt De Tracy., Fabrice Gerard Teulon

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

L'Ideologie tracyenne s'inscrit au point de clivage venant marquer d'apres Michel Foucault la fin de "l'episteme classique" et les debuts de "la modernite". Moment donc exemplaire dans l'histoire de la representation puisque le texte de Destutt de Tracy serait la "derniere philosophie classique"--ultime tentative de reorganisation du savoir sur un ordre epistemologique desormais echu. Pour les quelques linguistes et/ou semioticiens qui a la suite de Foucault ont redecouvert cette oeuvre longtemps oubliee, la raison de l'echec de la "science des idees" se trouve dans la definition meme de l'ecriture. Les signes, nous dit Destutt de Tracy, sont en definitive "vagues" …

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Decolonizing The Text: Glissantian Readings In Caribbean And African-American Literatures., Debra Lynn Anderson Jan 1992

Decolonizing The Text: Glissantian Readings In Caribbean And African-American Literatures., Debra Lynn Anderson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation proposes to derive a critical reading from the writings of the Martinican poet, novelist, and theorist, Edouard Glissant. This reading would most directly involve, but not limit itself to, literatures written by black writers from the Caribbean and the United States. As critics such as Christopher Miller and Anthony Appiah suggest, these literatures have become the ground upon which colonization is symbolically re-enacted. Criticism colonizes these literatures by its textual appropriation, its imposition of Western critical models, and by bringing its own assumptions to the text. The critically acclaimed prefaces of Jean-Paul Sartre ("Orphee noire") and Andre Breton …

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Vestiges Of Prehispanic, Sloping-Field Terraces On The Piedmont Of Central Veracruz, Mexico, Andrew Sluyter, Alfred H. Siemens Jan 1992

Vestiges Of Prehispanic, Sloping-Field Terraces On The Piedmont Of Central Veracruz, Mexico, Andrew Sluyter, Alfred H. Siemens

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Lsu General Catalog 1992-1993, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College Jan 1992

Lsu General Catalog 1992-1993, 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 General Catalog includes information on registration and financial aid as well as academic services offered to all students.

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Detecting The Scale And Resolution Effects In Remote Sensing And Gis., Changyong Cao Jan 1992

Detecting The Scale And Resolution Effects In Remote Sensing And Gis., Changyong Cao

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examines the relationship between resolution and fractal dimensions of remotely sensed images. Based on the results of testing for the reliability of the algorithms on hypothetical surfaces, the isarithm algorithm is selected for determining the fractal dimensions of remotely sensed images. This algorithm is then applied to simulated fractal Brownian motion images and four calibrated airborne multispectral remotely sensed image data sets with different true and artificial resolutions for Puerto Rico. The results from applying the fractal method to images at different levels of resolution suggest that the higher the resolution of an image, the higher the fractal …

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Effects Of Vertebrate Herbivory On Louisiana Coastal Marshes., Katherine Lynn Taylor Jan 1992

Effects Of Vertebrate Herbivory On Louisiana Coastal Marshes., Katherine Lynn Taylor

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The disturbances of herbivory, simulated "eat-outs" (clipping and removal of above-ground biomass), and burning were examined for their effect on total biomass, individual species abundance, and species richness in several different marsh communities. Herbivory significantly reduced the total community biomass of all the marshes studied. Simulated "eat-outs" reduced the total biomass of the freshwater marsh but had no persistent effect on the total biomass of either the oligohaline or mesohaline marshes of the Pearl River. Both the oligohaline and the mesohaline marshes were able to recover from a removal of above-ground biomass (simulated "eat-out") within two years. The freshwater marsh …

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Pistols And Politics: Planter And Plain Folk Relations In The Piney Woods South, The Florida Parishes Of Louisiana, 1810-1899. (Volumes I And Ii)., Samuel Claiborne Hyde Jr Jan 1992

Pistols And Politics: Planter And Plain Folk Relations In The Piney Woods South, The Florida Parishes Of Louisiana, 1810-1899. (Volumes I And Ii)., Samuel Claiborne Hyde Jr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The Florida parishes of Louisiana experienced a peculiar pattern of development. Following successive periods of English and Spanish domination and an armed insurrection resulting in the shortlived Republic of West Florida, the region stabilized under the control of delta parish planters. A fierce tradition of Jeffersonian republican values encouraged the plain folk to assert themselves politically during the 1830's and 1840's. Yet by employing a series of enemies common to southern whites, and by expanding their control over the means of access to market, the planters stifled the aspirations of the plain folk insuring white unity on the eve of …

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Modification Of The Drainmod-Creams Model To Incorporate A Nutrient Submodel., Abdul Razak Bin Saleh Jan 1992

Modification Of The Drainmod-Creams Model To Incorporate A Nutrient Submodel., Abdul Razak Bin Saleh

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

DRAINMOD-CREAMS model was used to simulate surface runoff and sediment loss from subsurface drained plot and non-subsurface drained plot in southern Louisiana. Seven years (1981-1987) of recorded data were used in this study. In general, the performance of the model in simulating surface runoff and sediment loss from subsurface drained plot is satisfactory. However, the DRAINMOD-CREAMS model did not simulate surface runoff and sediment loss accurately from non-subsurface drained plot. The CREAMS nutrient submodel was also tested on both plots. The CREAMS model seriously overestimates the nitrogen loss from non-subsurface drained plot. The sensitivity of the DRAINMOD-CREAMS model on erodibility …

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Death At The Hands Of Persons Unknown: The Geography Of Lynching In The Deep South, 1882 To 1910., Mary Elizabeth Hines Jan 1992

Death At The Hands Of Persons Unknown: The Geography Of Lynching In The Deep South, 1882 To 1910., Mary Elizabeth Hines

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This research explores the county-level lynching record of four Deep South states--Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi--to discover the spatial and temporal distribution of lynching within the region and its relationship to social and economic conditions. The period of 1882 to 1910 is selected because lynching reached its highest levels in those decades. Demographic and economic variables from the United States censuses characterize Deep South counties as urban or rural and rich or poor. The physiography and historical attributes of counties are also considered. The research objective is to improve understanding of lynching in the postbellum Deep South through geographic analysis. …

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