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Searching In Clutter: Visual Attention Strategies Of Expert Pilots, Melissa R. Beck, Michael Trenchard, Amanda Van Lamsweerde, Rebecca R. Goldstein, Maura Lohrenz

Faculty Publications

Clutter can slow visual search. However, experts may develop attention strategies that alleviate the effects of clutter on search performance. In the current study we examined the effects of global and local clutter on visual search performance and attention strategies. Pilots and undergraduates searched for an elevation marker in charts of high, medium, and low global clutter. The target was in a low or high local clutter region of the chart or it was absent. High global and local clutter slowed search performance for both pilots and undergraduates. Pilots were more accurate but slower. Pilots' search strategies differed from undergraduates …

Faculty Senate Newsletter, October 2012, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: “Diversity” is one of those words that can carry diverse meanings. As one story in this issue of the Newsletter reports, LSU A&M’s diversity office is making a salutary move by the introduction, in its annual report, of numerous colorful icons representing the many diversities that the world has to offer. That modern, dispersed diversity contrasts with the more centripetal sort that attracted attention earlier in Louisiana’s history, when higher education institutions sought primarily and specifically to remedy past injustices through outreach to African-American student and faculty cadres. The flexibility of the term “diversity” comes in handy …

Latinos (Research Report #115), Amanda D. Cawley, Mark J. Schafer, Troy Blanchard

LSU AgCenter Research Reports

This first review in this series focused on various racial and ethnic groups in the Gulf of Mexico region explores the experiences of Latinos -- a group that has gained significant local and national attention over the past 20 years as the number of Latinos residing in the area, and in the nation, has drastically increased.

Comparison Of Therapeutic Dosimetric Data From Passively Scattered Proton And Photon Craniospinal Irradiations For Medulloblastoma, Rebecca M. Howell, Annelise Giebeler, Wendi Koontz-Raisig, Anita Mahajan, Carol J. Etzel, Anthony M. D'Amelio, Kenneth L. Homann, Wayne D. Newhauser

Faculty Publications

Background: For many decades, the standard of care radiotherapy regimen for medulloblastoma has been photon (megavoltage x-rays) craniospinal irradiation (CSI). The late effects associated with CSI are well-documented in the literature and are in-part attributed to unwanted dose to healthy tissue. Recently, there is growing interest in using proton therapy for CSI in pediatric and adolescent patients to reduce this undesirable dose. Previous comparisons of dose to target and non-target organs from conventional photon CSI and passively scattered proton CSI have been limited to small populations (n ≤ 3) and have not considered the use of age-dependent target volumes in …

Faculty Senate Newsletter, May 2012, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: The relentless flow of bad news from the state capitol leads educators around the state to assume that they can do nothing to remedy the problems beleaguering Louisiana’s college campuses. In large measure, this despair is warranted, in part because lawmakers lack the incipient and sometimes superstitious respect for learning that keeps universities in large states up-and-running during even the hardest times. There are, however, a variety of steps that campuses can take to solve problems on the home turf and with that lay the groundwork not only for a quick recovery but also for better, happier, …

Are Women Really Harder On Other Women? A Survey Of Female Employees, Laurel Keys

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A Comparison Of Handwriting And Typing With Regard To The Development Of Memory, Cailidh Pederson

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Sous Le Macadam Deviancy, Abuse, And Underlying Hope In The Works Of Gisèle Pineau, Haley Bove

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Rerigging From Offshore Platform To Coastal Fishing Community, Ryan Bertucci

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Fresholds: Connecting Eating And Urbanity, Megan Claire Harris

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The Retention Value Of Different Song Acquisition Methods: Rote, Immersion, And Blended, Erin Rose Baker

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Framing, Media Attribution Of Blame, And Negativity In Newspaper Coverage Of Failing Public Schools: Evidence And Implications For Policy, Amanda Briggs

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Marketing Mainstream Financial Resources To Baton Rouge’S Unbanked Population: Assessments And Recommendations For The Bank On Baton Rouge Initiative, Victor Lashley Jr

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Influence Of Communication And Rituals On Military Members’ And Spouses’ Growth Post- Deployment, Bryanna Zawodniak

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Sustainability: More About The Toolmaker Than The Tools, R. Eugene Turner

Faculty Publications

A sustainable system is not necessarily a high-quality one, but it could be. We could, for example, “survive” on the desperate edge, as the remnants in a self-fouled and deteriorating environment. Why won’t a future sustainable system be just another industrial model of mass efficiency and throughput? Perhaps the incompatible outcomes are a choice between the sometimes nearly invisible civilizing aspects of culture nurturing respect, equality, and cooperation on one hand, and the greed and self-indulgences undermining social tolerance, empathy, and cooperation that ends up promoting violence and dehumanization. The human heritage is subtle, indestructible, and worth nurturing if we …

Linking Social Capital To Disaster Recovery, Ryan Gregoire

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Leader Psychology And Involvement In International Events, John Beieler

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Utilizing Opinion Leaders To Combat Racial Disparity In Breast Cancer: An Analysis Of A Community Health Advisor Model And Communication Techniques Used To Decrease The Racial Disparity In Breast Cancer, Heather Watts

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Telomere Maintenance Genes Sirt1 And Xrcc6 Impact Age-Related Decline In Telomere Length But Only Sirt1 Is Associated With Human Longevity, Sangkyu Kim, Xiuhua Bi, Malwina Czarny-Ratajczak, Jianliang Dai, David A. Welsh, Leann Myers, Michael A. Welsch, Katie E. Cherry, Jonathan Arnold, Leonard W. Poon, Michal Jazwinski

Faculty Publications

Leukocyte telomere length is widely considered a biomarker of human age and in many studies indicative of health or disease. We have obtained quantitative estimates of telomere length from blood leukocytes in a population sample, confirming results of previous studies that telomere length significantly decreases with age. Telomere length was also positively associated with several measures of healthy aging, but this relationship was dependent on age. We screened two genes known to be involved in telomere maintenance for association with the age-related decline in telomere length observed in our population to identify candidate longevity-associated genes. A single-nucleotide polymorphism located in …

Dead Or Exploding: A Book Of Letters, Jerika Marchan

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Defeating Lee: A History Of The Second Corps, Army Of The Potomac, John Daley

Civil War Book Review

Re-Assessing the Second Corps

Not since Francis Walker's History of the Second Corps in the Army of the Potomac appeared in 1887 has anyone attempted a general history of the Army of the Potomac's Second Corps. That a scholarly revision of Walker's useful but at times hagiographi....

Southern Character: Essays In Honor Of Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Joan E. Cashin

Civil War Book Review

Honoring a Giant in Southern History

I vividly remember the first time I read Bertram Wyatt-Brown's Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1982, we had a small but vital group of scholars working in southern history. From word of mo....

To The Battles Of Franklin And Nashville And Beyond: Stabilization And Reconstruction In Tennessee And Kentucky, 1864-1866, Brian Steel Wills

Civil War Book Review

Examining the Transition to Peace in Tennessee and Kentucky

In this latest of three volumes, Benjamin Franklin Cooling continues his series examining the effects of the American Civil War on Kentucky and Tennessee. Cooling builds on his earlier work, Forts Henry and Donelson—The Key ....

With A Sword In One Hand & Jomini In The Other: The Problem Of Military Thought In The Civil War North, William L. Barney

Civil War Book Review

Examining Military Doctrine

Based on the Steven and Janice Brose Lectures delivered at Penn State University in March, 2009, With a Sword in One Hand & Jomini in the Other consists of three essays dealing with efforts in the Union by civilians and soldiers alike to find in writing....

The Battlefield And Beyond: Essays On The American Civil War, John M. Belohlavek

Civil War Book Review

Fresh Perspectives on Civil War Study

Placing Jefferson Davis and George Gershwin in the same volume on the Civil War is not a task for the faint of heart. But then, assembling a celebratory work offers an editor the latitude not always available to the author of a monograph. Clayt....

Sing Not War: The Lives Of Union And Confederate Veterans In Gilded Age America, Donald R. Shaffer

Civil War Book Review

Reintegrating Back into Society

James Marten has written an anecdotal and analytical study of Union and Confederate veterans in the years following the Civil War. Although originally intended as a “general history of Civil War veterans," Marten admits that his choice of sources means “t....

Do Stimulant Medications For Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (Adhd) Affect Memory Of Emotional Stimuli?, Jennifer Maul

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Identifying The Common Characteristics Of Comprehensive School Physical Activity Programs In Louisiana, Kyrie’ A. Deslatte

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Estimating Gdp At The Parish (County) Level: An Evaluation Of Alternative Approaches (Bulletin #890), John D. Barreca, J. Matthew Fannin, Joshua D. Detre

LSU AgCenter Bulletins

Gross Domestic Product or GDP is estimated for each parish from earnings and employment data from more than 60 industries in Louisiana.

Novel Books: The Power Of Metafiction In Female Victorian Writing, Joanna Zimmerman

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