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Character Strengths And Deep Connections Following Hurricanes Katrina And Rita: Spiritual And Secular Pathways To Resistance Among Volunteers, Amy L. Ai, Roslyn Richardson, Carol Plummer, Christopher G. Ellison, Catherine Lemieux, Terrence N. Tice, Bu Huang

Faculty Publications

This study investigated a conceptual model with two pathways, altruism and perceived spiritual support, leading to resilience among student volunteers following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (H-KR). Both strengths share the sense of deep connections. Parallel pathways with the two major constructs were estimated using structural equation modeling, adjusting for demographics and peritraumatic emotional reactions. The two indicators may have served as a protective mechanism for all volunteers despite differing racial/cultural backgrounds. The potential protection of these strength factors was mediated through optimism and hope. Resilience among minority volunteers was associated more with faith-related strengths, as indicated in the relevant pathway …

Marital Satisfaction And Depressive Symptoms In China, Richard B. Miller, Tiffany M. Mason, Jerevie M. Canlas, Dahua Wang, David A. Nelson, Craig H. Hart

Faculty Publications

Although there is substantial evidence that low marital satisfaction is a significant risk factor for depression, little research has examined this relationship in cultures outside of the U.S. and Europe. The validity of the marital discord model of depression in Chinese culture was tested by studying 391 couples living in Beijing and Hangzhou, China. Results of structural equation modeling using an actor-partner interdependence model strategy indicated that husbands' and wives' marital satisfaction was significantly predictive of their own depressive symptoms. In addition, wives' marital satisfaction significantly predicted husbands' depressive symptoms. These results provide evidence that the marital discord model of …

Truancy Assessment And Service Center (Tasc): Final Report May 1999 – December 2012, Cecile Guin, Renée Boutte Myer, Judith L. Rhodes, Samuel Robison, Jada Thomas-Smith, Elizabeth Winchester

Reports

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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 …

Should We Hire David Beckham To Endorse Our Brand? Contextual Interference And Consumer Memory For Brands In A Celebrity's Endorsement Portfolio, Katie Kelting, Dan Hamilton Rice

Faculty Publications

Imagine that you are browsing through a magazine, and you see one of your favorite celebrities in an advertisement. Then, a bit further into the magazine you see that same celebrity in an ad for a different product. A few hours later, you think of the celebrity again and try to remember the products s/he was endorsing, but what will you actually recall? This paper examines consumer memory for celebrity advertising under conditions where a single celebrity advertises for more than one brand. Using contextual interference as the theoretical lens, the current research posits and demonstrates how brands in a …

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

Honors Capstones

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Empathy, Altruism, And Prosocial Behavior In Humans And Primates, Renee Dale

Honors Capstones

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Society Contra State: Murray Rothbard’S Conception Of The Proper Role Of Coercion In Society, Alex Braud

Honors Capstones

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Freedom Of Expression...With Attitude, Aimee Chalin

Honors Capstones

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

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: One of the surest signs of error is unanimity. Unchallenged agreement among a very large number of people always suggests either a conspiracy of silence or a fear of seeming retrograde or a plain old suppression of dissent. Among the axioms that are nervously and not altogether freely endorsed by that large cadre of clever persons who comprise the academy and its administration is the assumption that privatization is the way of the future. This shibboleth sometimes takes a melancholy form, as in the lament that the big public dollars that built American academe are “never coming …

Developing Parasocial Relationships Through Emerging Social Media Platforms, Harkeet “Kittu” Pannu

Honors Capstones

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The Effects Of Knowledge On Opinion Of The Healthcare Reform Law In The United States, Stephanie Marlene Fuqua

Honors Capstones

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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 …

Mathematics Library News 10, Aaron Lercher

Faculty Publications

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Effects Of Biogents Sentinel Trap Field Placement On Capture Rates Of Adult Asian Tiger Mosquitoes, Aedes Albopictus, Taryn N. Crepeau, Sean P. Healy, Kristen Bartlett-Healy, Isik Unlu, Ary Farajollahi, Dina M. Fonseca

Faculty Publications

The Biogents® Sentinel (BGS) trap is the standard tool to monitor adult Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Skuse) (Diptera: Culicidae), the Asian tiger mosquito. BGS traps are commonly placed in residential properties during surveillance operations, but locations within properties may have significant differences in ambient light, temperature, and humidity (e.g. between a sunlit lawn and shady underbrush). We examined the effect of BGS trap placement on Ae. albopictus capture rates in three residential properties in Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA. In each property we visually selected locations as shade, partial shade, and sun. Traps in "partial shade" locations were under vegetation and …

Industrial And Neoliberal Policies During The Pinochet Era: A Second Look, Michelle Christine Zavala-Cardona

Honors Capstones

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Comparison Of Risk Of Radiogenic Second Cancer Following Photon And Proton Craniospinal Irradiation For A Pediatric Medulloblastoma Patient, Rui Zhang, Rebecca M. Howell, Annelise Giebeler, Phillip J. Taddei, Anita Mahajan, Wayne D. Newhauser

Faculty Publications

Pediatric patients who received radiation therapy are at risk of developing side effects such as radiogenic second cancer. We compared proton and photon therapies in terms of the predicted risk of second cancers for a 4 year old medulloblastoma patient receiving craniospinal irradiation (CSI). Two CSI treatment plans with 23.4 Gy or Gy (RBE) prescribed dose were computed: a three-field 6 MV photon therapy plan and a four-field proton therapy plan. The primary doses for both plans were determined using a commercial treatment planning system. Stray radiation doses for proton therapy were determined from Monte Carlo simulations, and stray radiation …

Social Opportunity Causes Rapid Transcriptional Changes In The Social Behaviour Network Of The Brain In An African Cichlid Fish, K. P. Maruska, A. Zhang, A. Neboori, R. D. Fernald

Faculty Publications

Animals constantly integrate external stimuli with their own internal physiological state to make appropriate behavioural decisions. Little is known, however, about where in the brain the salience of these signals is evaluated, or which neural and transcriptional mechanisms link this integration to adaptive behaviours. We used an African cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni to test the hypothesis that a new social opportunity activates the conserved 'social behaviour network' (SBN), a collection of brain nuclei known to regulate social behaviours across vertebrates. We measured mRNA levels of immediate early genes (IEGs) in microdissected brain regions as a proxy for neuronal activation, and …

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

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: Years ago, American Airlines backgrounded its television advertisements with a hauntingly optimistic jingle featuring one phrase, “something special in the air.” Tone, whether musical or inflectional or atmospheric, is indeed something airy— something halfway between the inferred and the empirical. One of the wonders if not miracles of recent educational policy is the sudden change in tone among the campuses of the University of Louisiana System since the arrival of new, imaginative, and energetic leadership in the “UoL” System office. Nothing has changed in the budget picture and therefore not too much has happened empirically. Nevertheless, and …

The Global Sustainability Transition: It Is More Than Changing Light Bulbs, Michael P. Weinstein, R. Eugene Turner, Carles Ibanez

Faculty Publications

Current policies and norms to reconcile human demands for resources with the Earth’s ability to supply them have resulted in practices that mainly treat the symptoms of unsustainability rather than their underlying causes. Moreover, the increase in our knowledge about humankind’s role in ecosystems is not keeping pace with our understanding of the consequences of our actions, resulting in a deepening inability to address sustainability issues. The extreme complexity and intricate workings of the world require the expansion of our mental models in a systems-thinking framework if we are to realize a sustainable place for humans in it. The challenge …

Flush Times & Fever Dreams: A Story Of Capitalism And Slavery In The Age Of Jackson, Gavin Wright

Civil War Book Review

Assessing Slavery and Society

From the appearance of the word “capitalism" in the subtitle, readers might infer that Joshua Rothman’s Flush Times & Fever Dreams concentrates on financial or economic aspects of slavery during the boom years of 1830s Mississippi. This expectation ....

Ruin Nation: Destruction And The American Civil War, J. Tracy Power

Civil War Book Review

New Approach to the Civil War’s Legacy

No American in the spring of 1861, Northerner or Southerner, white or black, free or slave, could have imagined the scale and devastating longterm effects of the war that would soon engulf them. If the sectional conflict generated a great deal of an....

Gumbo Yearbook, Class Of 2013, 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.

A Path To Success? A Review Of Evolution, Development, And The Predictable Genome By David L. Stern, Hope Hollocher, Charles H. Pence, Grant Ramsey, Michelle M. Wirth

Faculty Publications

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The Battle Hymn Of The Republic: A Biography Of The Song That Marches On, Jack Trammell

Civil War Book Review

The Importance of a Song to the War Effort

John Stauffer (Harvard) and Benjamin Soskis (George Mason University) are both uniquely qualified by training and experience to undertake interdisciplinary studies, and in Battle Hymn they demonstrate this talent with great depth, insight....

Pictures Versus Digits In The Irrelevant Sound Effect, Corey Mcgill

Honors Capstones

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The Effect Of Multidimensional Context Reinstatement On False Recognition, Anthony N. Correro Ii

Honors Capstones

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Louisiana Agriculture Winter, 2013

Louisiana Agriculture

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Parental Psychological Control Dimensions: Connections With Russian Preschoolers' Physical And Relational Aggression, David A. Nelson, Chongming Yang, Sarah M. Coyne, Joseph A. Olsen, Craig H. Hart

Faculty Publications

Parental psychological control generally consists of overinvolved/protective and critical/rejecting elements, both being linked to children's psychosocial maladjustment. The critical/rejecting element is multidimensional in nature, and few studies have explored this conceptual fullness. It is possible that some dimensions, if they can be statistically differentiated, are uniquely tied to various child behaviors. This may help resolve some of the inconsistency apparent across studies, such as studies of relational aggression. Accordingly, we examined the association between parental psychological control and childhood physical and relational aggression using a dimensional approach. Participants were 204 Russian preschoolers and their parents. The results revealed that dimensions …

Innovation Through Reuse Thoughtful Strategies For Adaptive Buildings, Sarah Gravois

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.