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Lsu General Catalog 2019-2020, 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.

Examining The Interaction Of State And Trait Anxiety On Working Memory Performance, Carly C. Moore

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

The Criminal Justice Systems And Psychological Disfranchisement, Morgan Johnson

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

The F Street Mess: How Southern Senators Rewrote The Kansas-Nebraska Act, Randall M. Miller

Civil War Book Review

In her first book, Alice Elizabeth Malavasic argues that four southern senators who made up the F Street mess from 1853 to 1856 constituted the “most powerful bloc in the U.S. Senate.” (p. 8) During the 1850s, as self-proclaimed heirs of John C. Calhoun’s constitutional ideas and proslavery strategy, these senators used their positions as chairmen of critical senatorial committees to push slavery’s interests vigorously. In Malavasic’s accounting, the friendship and group dynamic of the four Democratic messmates – David Rice Atchison of Missouri, Andrew P. Butler of South Carolina, Robert M.T. Hunter of Virginia, and James M. Mason of …

Aberration Of Mind: Suicide And Suffering In The Civil War-Era South, Tom Barber

Civil War Book Review

No abstract provided.

The Hidden Light Of Northern Fires, Meg Groeling

Civil War Book Review

Daren Wang is not the first author to write a Civil War novel, but he is one of the few to get a review in these august pages. Hidden Light is his first novel, but Wang has written for The Atlantic Journal-Constitution, Paste, and Five Points magazine. Additionally, he is the founding executive director of the Decatur Book Festival. Such an active mind was imprinted with an interest in history at an early age when he and his family actually moved to Town Line, New York.

Borders Of Engagement: Rethinking Scholarship, Activism, And The Academy, Bryan J. Mccann

Faculty Publications

The rhetorical norms around scholarly engagement presume that scholars participate in activist work outside their professional spaces. The avatar of the activist-scholar is the energetic graduate student who fulfills their academic responsibilities while also pursuing activist interests in the “community.” This chapter argues the presumption that activist rhetoricians and other scholars must traverse the border between academy and community reifies the border between the engaged scholar and academia itself. Rhetorical studies, and higher education generally, have always to some degree been invested in traversing the campus-community border. Rhetorical studies, both its communication and composition manifestations, came of age alongside the …

The Role Of Talker Familiarity In Auditory Distraction, Brittan A. Barker, Emily M. Elliott

Faculty Publications

The current research employed a classic irrelevant sound effect paradigm and investigated the talker-specific content of the irrelevant speech. Specifically, we aimed to determine if the participants' familiarity with the irrelevant speech's talker affected the magnitude of the irrelevant sound effect. Experiment 1 was an exploration of talker familiarity established in a natural listening environment (i.e., a university classroom) in which we manipulated the participants' relationships with the talker. In Experiment 2, we manipulated the participants' familiarity with the talker via 4 days of controlled exposure to the target talker's audio recordings. For both Experiments 1 and 2, a robust …

Voice Teacher Certification And Research: Relationships And Trends, Rockford Sansom

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

What We Know About Team Dynamics For Long-Distance Space Missions: A Systematic Review Of Analog Research, Suzanne T. Bell, Shanique G. Brown, Tyree Mitchell

Faculty Publications

Background: To anticipate the dynamics of future long-distance space exploration mission (LDSEM) teams, research is conducted in analog environments (e.g., Antarctic expeditions, space chamber simulations), or environments that share key contextual features of LDSEM such as isolation and confinement. We conducted a systematic review of research conducted on teams in LDSEM-analog environments to identify which factors have been examined with quantitative research, and to summarize what the studies reveal about team dynamics in LDSEM-analog environments. Methods: We used a comprehensive search strategy to identify research on teams that lived and worked together. Data on team dynamics were extracted where possible, …

Food-Burying Behavior In Red Imported Fire Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Wenquan Qin, Xuan Chen, Linda M. Hooper-Bùi, Jiacheng Cai, Lei Wang, Zhaohui Sun, Xiujun Wen, Cai Wang

Faculty Publications

The food-burying behavior has been reported in many mammals and birds, but was rarely observed in invertebrates. The red imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta Buren, is an invasive pest in many areas of the world that usually performing food-burying during the foraging processes. However, the impacted factors and measureable patterns of this behavior is largely unknown. In the present study, food-burying vs food-transport behaviors of Solenopsis invicta were observed under laboratory and field conditions. When starved (no food was provided for 37 days) in the laboratory, food (sausage) was consumed by large numbers of ants, and few burying behaviors were …

Behavioral Health Risk And Resilience Among International Students In The United States: A Study Of Sociodemographic Differences, Youn Kyoung Kim, Arati Maleku, Catherine Lemieu, Xi Du, Zibei Chen

Faculty Publications

Using a resilience framework, the current cross-sectional study examined indicators of behavioral health risk and resilience among U.S. international students (N=322) across key sociodemographic characteristics. A multimethod approach was used to collect data with both an online platform and paper-based survey instrument. Results showed that higher levels of acculturative stress were reported by older students, females, undergraduates, students who lived with their families, and those who had resided in the US longer than 2 years. Findings underscore the importance of culturally relevant screening and prevention strategies that target resilience and other protective factors to reduce health risk and encourage well-being …

Crossing The Deadlines: Civil War Prisons Reconsidered, Angela M. Riotto

Civil War Book Review

In the volume’s foreword, John T. Hubbell, professor emeritus at Kent State University, succinctly summarized the historiography of Civil War prisons, remarking, “It seems that prisons and prisoners have been…a part of the narrative, yet somehow strangely apart from it.” Seeking to remedy this disconnect, Michael P. Gray, author of The Business of Captivity: Elmira and its Civil War Prisons (2001), tasked eight scholars to “reconsider” Civil War prisons and prisoners of war (POWs) and scholars’ interpretations of the topic. The result, Crossing the Deadlines: Civil War Prisons Reconsidered, is an enlightening essay collection that highlights the latest methodologies …

My Big Fat Catholic Queer Wedding, Kourtney Baker

Comparative Woman

No abstract provided.

The Quest For Self: Using Mandala Art In Reflective Practice Journaling, Kathleen Quinn

Comparative Woman

This article is a nexus of research, personal journaling reflections, and mandala creation from the authors own journals and focuses on the use of Mandalas as part of a reflective practice journaling process. Attention to mandala usage within reflective practice considering depth interiority, engaging and sharing with others. The authors approach to mandala construction is included followed by an exercise for observation and assessment of mandalas. The structure for reflective practice helps shape transformational leaders, using expressive arts, narratives in journaling. This transformational Discovery pathway and narrative exercises can be used for creating professional learning communities. This form of reflective …

Special Issue School-To-Prison Pipeline, Taboo Journal Special Issue

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

A Student Saved Is Not A Dollar Earned: A Meta-Analysis Of School Disparities In Discipline Practice Toward Black Children, Jemimah L. Young, Jamaal R. Young, Bettie Ray Butler

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Seen But Not Heard: Personal Narratives Of Systemic Failure Within The School-To-Prison Pipeline, Kalinda Jones, Anthony Ferguson, Christian Ramirez, Michael Owens

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Using Double Consciousness As An Analytic Tool To Discuss The Decision Making Of Black School Leaders In Disrupting The School-To-Prison Pipeline, Ramon Goings, Sheree Alexander, Julius Davis, Nicole M. Walters

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Restorative Justice As A Doubled-Edged Sword: Conflating Restoration Of Black Youth With Transformation Of Schools, Arash Daneshzadeh, George Sirrakos

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Introduction: School-To-Prison Pipeline Special Issue, Ahmad Washington, Malik Henfield

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Men’S Jeans Fit Based On Body Shape Categorization, Elahe Saeidi

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to categorize lower body shape in men and to investigate the interplay between body shape and fitting issues appearing in men’s jeans. More specifically, the goal of the study was to improve apparel fit based on body shape. The detailed objectives of the study were to: (1) Categorize male body shapes using statistical analysis; (2) use 3D virtual fitting technology to assess fit and develop a shape-driven pants block pattern for each body shape.

This quantitative study was conducted in three stages: (1) categorizing the body shape of 1420 male scans, aged 18-35, from …

A Poetics Of Temperance: Gender, Genre, And Meaning-Making In Early Modern England, Cristina Maria Rosell

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

For several hundred years, the scholarly discussion of temperance was dominated by the legacy of classical models. This dissertation, titled A Poetics of Temperance: Gender, Genre, and Meaning-Making in Early Modern England, develops said discussion in a new way by forging a language about ethics and aesthetics into a poetics of temperance. The term poiesis derives from Greek and signifies “to make, create, produce” (OED). Accordingly, Aristotle uses the Greek poietes, “from which our word ‘poet’ derives,” to denote a “maker” (Murray xxxii). In brief, this project understands the role of women in emergent genres as …

Louisiana Children’S Trust Fund: 2017-2018 Annual Report, Elizabeth Winchester, Jonathan Lomotey, Marmar Orooji, Jada Thomas-Smith, Aimee H. Moles, Kandra Colomb, Judith Rhodes

Reports

No abstract provided.

Investigating Problem Of Distracted Drivers On Louisiana Roadways, Xiaoduan Sun

Publications

Due to the escalating usage of cellphone and social networking, distracted driving is and will remain as one of the most serious problems faced by Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and law enforcement agencies. Under the aim of in-depth investigation of distracted driving crashes in Louisiana, the specific objectives of this study are: (1) reviewing the crash reports for the quality of distracted driving crash reporting, (2) analyzing distracted driving-related crashes through regression model and data mining algorithm to link the severity of distracted driving crashes with the contributing factors collected in crash data, (3) investigating the observable characteristics of distracted …

The Use Of A Celebrity In Advertising A Potentially Unhealthy Product: Using Psi And The Effects On Consumers’ Body Image, Oliver Taylor

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Adoption Of Sustainable Agriculture Practices Among Farmers In Kentucky, Usa, Bijesh Mishra, Buddhi R. Gyawali, Krishna P. Paudel, Neelam C. Poudyal, Marion F. Simon, Siddhartha Dasgupta, George Antonious

Faculty Publications

© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Promoting the sustainable agricultural practices at an individual farm level is essential to ensure agricultural sustainability. This study analyzed whether and how various factors related to farm or farmers’ characteristics influence the adoption intensity of sustainable agriculture practices. We used a negative binomial regression model to fit the data collected from a mail survey of farmers in Kentucky, USA. Our results showed that the adoption intensity of sustainable agriculture practices varied significantly among agricultural districts in Kentucky. Farmers who grew row crops, had irrigation facilities, and were in favor of …

Discussion Forum: The Vanishing Nineteenth Century In European History?, David Blackbourn, James M. Brophy, Pieter M. Judson, Alexander M. Martin, Lloyd S. Kramer, Alex Chase-Levenson, Roger Chickering, Simone Lässig, Suzanne Marchand, Karen Hagemann, Sebastian Conrad, Birgit Aschmann, Insa Kummer, Jürgen Osterhammel, Andrew Zimmerman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Understanding Fear Of Zika: Personal, Interpersonal, And Media Influences, Chun Yang, James Price Dillard, Ruobing Li

Faculty Publications

Fear of infectious disease often motivates people to protect themselves. But, it can also produce negative bio-social-psychological effects whose severity is on par with those of the disease. The WHO declaration of Zika as a world health crisis presented an opportunity to study factors that bring about fear. Beginning nine days after the WHO announcement, data were gathered from women aged 18–35 living in the southern United States (N = 719). Respondents reported experiencing fear of Zika at levels akin to those reported following other significant crises/disasters (e.g., the terrorist attacks of 9/11). Fear increased as a function of (1) …

Perceived Risks And Enjoyment Of Access-Based Consumption: Identifying Barriers And Motivations To Fashion Renting, Chunmin Lang

Faculty Publications

Access-based consumption, a growing trend in today’s society, provides the consumer with an opportunity to have access to new and diverse products without the burden of ownership. As one form of access-based consumption in the fashion industry, fashion renting still lacks development and popularity. The purpose of this study is to identify how perceived risks and frugal shopping affect the attitudes, perceived enjoyment and further behavioral intention toward the adoption of fashion renting. An online survey was conducted with 452 participants in the United States. Structural equation modeling was employed to test the proposed hypotheses. The results confirmed the negative …