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A School For Utopia: Marietta Johnson And The Organic Idea., Janet Ruie Mcgrath Jan 1996

A School For Utopia: Marietta Johnson And The Organic Idea., Janet Ruie Mcgrath

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This history, written from a feminist perspective, uses historical materials which trace unusual social and educational experiments in Fairhope, Alabama, in the early twentieth century. The early development of the utopian Fairhope community, founded by E. B. Gaston and a group of like-minded midwestern social reformers, is reviewed. Gaston's resolve to alleviate the worst inequities of monopolistic capitalism through practicing the single tax principles of Henry George is placed in historical context. Both the social experiment and its ideologically complementary Organic School are situated within the period known as the progressive era which followed closely upon the industrial revolution. The …

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Children's Relative Influence In Purchase Decision-Making: A Multi-Theoretical Approach., Laura Ann Willis Williams Jan 1996

Children's Relative Influence In Purchase Decision-Making: A Multi-Theoretical Approach., Laura Ann Willis Williams

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Sociological changes in the American family have positioned children to wield greater power in family purchase decisions. Although past descriptive research has confirmed that children are an important source of power in the household, this research has not explored the conceptual justification for the observed patterns of children's relative influence. To fill this gap in the family decision-making literature, this research develops a multi-theoretical conceptual model to explain children's relative influence in a purchase context. Social power theory, resource theory, social exchange theory, and social comparison theory were the conceptual frameworks for this research. Six studies were conducted, including a …

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The Accuracy Of Predictors Of Violence In A Chronic Inpatient Psychiatric Population, Shannon T. Palmer Jan 1996

The Accuracy Of Predictors Of Violence In A Chronic Inpatient Psychiatric Population, Shannon T. Palmer

Honors Capstones

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The Effects Of Verbal And Pictorial Elaborations On Memory In Younger And Older Adults, Deanna Kathleen Dokey Jan 1996

The Effects Of Verbal And Pictorial Elaborations On Memory In Younger And Older Adults, Deanna Kathleen Dokey

Honors Capstones

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The Intuitive Geometry Of Spinoza And Vermeer, Russell B. Gill Jan 1996

The Intuitive Geometry Of Spinoza And Vermeer, Russell B. Gill

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

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"The Late Unfortunate Regicide In France" Burke And The Political Sublime, Charles Hinnant Jan 1996

"The Late Unfortunate Regicide In France" Burke And The Political Sublime, Charles Hinnant

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

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Between The Glass And The Hand The Eye In Margaret Cavendish's Blaiing World, Anna Battigelli Jan 1996

Between The Glass And The Hand The Eye In Margaret Cavendish's Blaiing World, Anna Battigelli

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

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Enacting The Tyranny Of Social Forms In Sheridan's The Rivals, Robert P. Maccubbin Jan 1996

Enacting The Tyranny Of Social Forms In Sheridan's The Rivals, Robert P. Maccubbin

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

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Eternal Dictates The "Other" Of Blakean Inspiration, Mark S. Lussier Jan 1996

Eternal Dictates The "Other" Of Blakean Inspiration, Mark S. Lussier

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

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Book Review Corner Jan 1996

Book Review Corner

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

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"The Primrose Way" John Bunyan's The Lifo Death Of Mr, Badman And The Picaresque, James G. Randall Jan 1996

"The Primrose Way" John Bunyan's The Lifo Death Of Mr, Badman And The Picaresque, James G. Randall

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

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Johnsonian Figures A Cornucopia Of Vanity, Idleness, And Death In Samuel Johnson's Prose Writings, Mark A. Pedreira Jan 1996

Johnsonian Figures A Cornucopia Of Vanity, Idleness, And Death In Samuel Johnson's Prose Writings, Mark A. Pedreira

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

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Factors Influencing Completion Status Of Undergraduate Nursing Students Who Initiate Progression Appeals., Karen Diane Hadskey Blanchard Jan 1996

Factors Influencing Completion Status Of Undergraduate Nursing Students Who Initiate Progression Appeals., Karen Diane Hadskey Blanchard

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this descriptive research study was to determine the existence of predictors for success of nursing students who are granted appeals, based on special circumstances, by the University Progression and Retention Committee of Southeastern Louisiana University. This study investigated demographics (age, marital status, gender, race, residence, semester of appeal, and educational background) of 302 nursing students from Southeastern Louisiana University (January 1988, to May 1995) that appealed to the Progression and Retention Committee of the university to continue in the nursing program. Success predictor criteria provided to nursing faculty and students can be used as a positive resource …

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Transactional Interactions And Growth In The Global Economy: A Multiple-Network Analysis., Kuo-Hua Chen Jan 1996

Transactional Interactions And Growth In The Global Economy: A Multiple-Network Analysis., Kuo-Hua Chen

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation postulates that the trend of increasing globalization of economic activities within the shifting features of the world economy has been the dominating force transforming and integrating the international economic structure. I adopt ecological theory's external view of system structure, and focus on a more relational view of international exchange. Using network methodology, I analyze the effects of global transactional interactions on economic growth. This research extends concepts of the macro-urban approach to an analysis of international transactions. Based on data for 93 nations over a 20-year period (1970-1978 and 1978-1990) from three transactional networks (93 x 93 matrices), …

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Elizabeth Bishop's Poetic Personae: The Dark And The Bright., Joan Louise Fields Jan 1996

Elizabeth Bishop's Poetic Personae: The Dark And The Bright., Joan Louise Fields

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The intrigue of Elizabeth Bishop's poetic texts lies in the design of her sonic elements, vocalized by her dramatic personae as she directs her play of words. She manages a cohesion among her concept or content, the phonemic nature of her chosen words, and the rhythmic phrasing of her lines. Her poetic texts convey an enigmatic, yet natural, tonal quality that is produced by the juxtaposition of opposite strains or "strands" of voice--one shadowed, darker; the other light, brighter. These strands include the voice of a little girl as well as mature male and female speakers. Beneath, yet interwoven with …

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Interaction Between Ap-1 Proteins And Glucocorticoid Receptors In Regulation Of Lymphokine Activated Killer (Lak) Cell Activity In The Equine Species., Jing Bu Jan 1996

Interaction Between Ap-1 Proteins And Glucocorticoid Receptors In Regulation Of Lymphokine Activated Killer (Lak) Cell Activity In The Equine Species., Jing Bu

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This project was performed in order to determine whether exercise-induced increases in plasma cortisol concentrations may be responsible for enhanced lymphokine activated killer (LAK) cell activity. Secondly, this project included preliminary experments which were designed to test the hypothesis that stimulatory effects of cortisol on LAK cell activity may be due to cross-talk between signalling systems important to glucocorticoid effects and stimuli which act through nuclear activator protein-1 (AP-1). Blood samples were collected from resting horses in order to determine whether the animals had normal plasma glucocorticoid concentrations. All horses included in these experiments had $10\sp{-7}$ to $10\sp{-8}$M cortisol concentrations …

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Social Tolerance For Drug Use Among Junior High School Students In Taipei, Taiwan., San-Yi Li Jan 1996

Social Tolerance For Drug Use Among Junior High School Students In Taipei, Taiwan., San-Yi Li

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examines the degree of social tolerance for drug use among junior high school students in Taipei, Taiwan, and the relationships between their social tolerance for drug use and their individual, family, and drug environment characteristics. The theories of anomie, socialization, social control, and differential association are used as a guide for these examinations. The data for this study were collected from a sample of 604 students from 16 classes in three grades at five schools using a self-administrated questionnaire designed for this purpose. These classes were randomly selected from all 85 junior high schools which were stratified by …

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"It Is Leviathan": Family, Feminism, And American Drama., Janet Vanderpool Haedicke Jan 1996

"It Is Leviathan": Family, Feminism, And American Drama., Janet Vanderpool Haedicke

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

American drama has ever occupied a stepchild position in scholarship, its denigration rooted in the lure of domestic realism for even the most resistant of our playwrights. Maligned as solipsistic and regressive, this "leviathan" of mainstream American theatre putatively upholds through its content the unity of the mythologized family and through its form the closure of classical realism. Yet the legacy of this leviathan is an epistemological subversion and a transformative impulse. Those very plays which apotheosize American domestic realism ironically undermine its foundation in psychological causality, narrative linearity, transparent language, unmediated consciousness, and unified meaning. Destabilizing that objective reality …

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Neighborhood Characteristics And Crime Specific Victimization Rates: A Sociological Analysis., Esther Celeste Jones Jan 1996

Neighborhood Characteristics And Crime Specific Victimization Rates: A Sociological Analysis., Esther Celeste Jones

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation examines the influence of ecological, institutional, and cultural variables on neighborhood victimization rates of assault, burglary, and robbery in 30 urban neighborhoods. Ordinary least square regression analysis is sued to determine which variables are most predictives of these rates. Based on social disorganization theory, social control theory, and subculture of violence theory, an integrated model is developed. The integrated model includes elements of all three theoretical orientations, clearly indicating that crime is not unidimensional, and that different variables are predictive of specific types of crime at the neighborhood level. It was found that assault and robbery were best …

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The Impact Of Total Sleep Deprivation On Neuropsychological Functioning., Paul Gale Binks Jan 1996

The Impact Of Total Sleep Deprivation On Neuropsychological Functioning., Paul Gale Binks

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Extended sleep deprivation has been shown to produce impairments in sustained attention and vigilance, especially if the deprivation period is greater than 48 hours. However little is known about the effects of sleep deprivation on performance of cognitive tasks considered to be measures of higher cortical functioning such as cognitive flexibility and the capacity to shift response set. These two activities are associated with intact functioning of the frontal lobes of the cerebral cortex while attention and vigilance tasks are not considered to be part of this type of cognitive activity and are not associated with frontal lobe function. One …

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Walker Percy's Return To The Feminine., John Patrick Zmirak Jr Jan 1996

Walker Percy's Return To The Feminine., John Patrick Zmirak Jr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

What has been lacking in the corpus of interpretation of Walker Percy's work is a synthesis of approaches, a reading of the novels that unites the philosophical, psychological, theological, and linguistic insights that have accrued over three decades of criticism, and applies them to the vexing question of sexuality within his novels. In the present work, Percy's four central, non-satiric novels, The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, Lancelot and The Second Coming, are analyzed in the light of the Christian allegorical tradition, which employs sexual categories to explicate the meta-physical order, and to inform sexuality with meaning. In each of Percy's …

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Teacher Preferences For And Actual Use Of Service Delivery Options: A Study Of Possible Influential Variables., Angela Michelle Waguespack Jan 1996

Teacher Preferences For And Actual Use Of Service Delivery Options: A Study Of Possible Influential Variables., Angela Michelle Waguespack

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Variables influencing teacher preference for and actual use of two service delivery options, consultation and referral for evaluation, have previously been studied in isolation using varying methodologies. In this study, several variables including teacher attributions, organizational characteristics, child characteristics, and classroom behavior were studied in a comprehensive format. The relationship between these variables and teacher outcome expectancies, preference for services, and use of consultation versus referral was investigated. Sixty-seven teachers (grades K-8) seeking assistance for a student with behavior problems participated in the study. Teachers completed a demographic questionnaire, and measures of attributions, perceptions of problems, outcome expectancies, and preference …

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Faculty Characteristics That Are Associated With The Retention Of Doctoral Students., Bonnie Chaney Cooper Jan 1996

Faculty Characteristics That Are Associated With The Retention Of Doctoral Students., Bonnie Chaney Cooper

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The primary purpose of this study was to elicit perceptions of doctoral-student advisors regarding issues and processes associated with graduate dissertation research experiences in the schools of vocational education. A mailed survey was sent to teacher educators from the 21 member institutions of the University Council for Vocational Education (UCVE) who had served as chair to at least one doctoral committee. A researcher-designed instrument which used selected scales from other research was sent to the survey population. Statistical analyses were conducted on 144 completed surveys which represented a usable response rate of 76%. The completion rate among faculty's doctoral-student advisees …

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Teachers' Perceptions Of The Principal/Superintendent Relationship And The Organizational Climate Of The School: Do They Correlate?, Catherine Hall Glascock Jan 1996

Teachers' Perceptions Of The Principal/Superintendent Relationship And The Organizational Climate Of The School: Do They Correlate?, Catherine Hall Glascock

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This exploratory study examines teachers' perceptions of the principal/superintendent relationship in terms of hierarchical independence and influence, and whether those teachers' perceptions correlate with perceptions of the organizational climate of the school. A new instrument (TAI) was developed to measure the principal/superintendent relationship. After a literature review, panel of experts, and a principal intern class, a fourteen item instrument was used with the teachers. In order to hold some extraneous variables constant, only principals and superintendents who held office for at least three years were acceptable for the study. Factor analysis was conducted and the results indicate that while the …

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Homework Performance In Middle And High School Students: A Comparison Of The Effects Of Goal Setting With And Without Contingent Rewards., Alice L. Kahle Jan 1996

Homework Performance In Middle And High School Students: A Comparison Of The Effects Of Goal Setting With And Without Contingent Rewards., Alice L. Kahle

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Participation in homework has important academic benefits for students. In addition, parents and teachers expect that completion of homework assignments will help students develop independent study skills. Unfortunately, homework problems are common and a significant number of middle school and high school students fail to complete many homework assignments. Goal setting is a procedure that has been applied to homework and targets academic productivity directly. In this study, the efficacy of a self-managed goal setting procedure for improving the homework performance of middle and high school students was evaluated. A combination multiple baseline and alternating treatments design was utilized to …

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Medical Compliance In Hiv-Infected Patients: An Analysis Of Outpatient Clinic Attendance., Jennifer B. Mcclure Jan 1996

Medical Compliance In Hiv-Infected Patients: An Analysis Of Outpatient Clinic Attendance., Jennifer B. Mcclure

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Currently there is no cure for HIV/AIDS. The only way to deter progression of this disease is through regular prophylactic and curative treatment regimens. Thus, it is critical that patients are compliant with their outpatient medical appointments. Despite this, high rates of noncompliance have been reported among patients with HIV/AIDS. In addition, little attention has been directed toward establishing causal factors of this noncompliance. The present study represents one of the first efforts to elucidate psychosocial, illness, and demographic factors associated with compliance with outpatient, HIV-specific treatments. The results of this study indicate noncompliance with medical appointments is a significant …

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Relationship Of Catecholamines And Glucocorticoids To Lymphoproliferation Of Equine Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells., Lavanya Potla Jan 1996

Relationship Of Catecholamines And Glucocorticoids To Lymphoproliferation Of Equine Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells., Lavanya Potla

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Stress has been related to increased plasma epinephrine (E), norepinephrine (NE), and glucocorticoids. These compounds produce immunomodulatory effects by interacting with hormone receptors on or in various immune cells. This project assessed the effects of stress on equine influenza virus (EIV)-specific and mitogen-induced lymphoproliferation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) in relation to stress-induced changes in E, NE, and cortisol. In vitro effects of amines on proliferative responses and glucocorticoid receptor (GR) assays were done as a secondary measure of hormone and neurotransmitter interactions with the immune system. Time-dependent, saturable-specific hormone binding to GRs was abolished by heat treatment and …

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"Engineered Enjoyment": Technology, Capitalism, And The Female Body In Film., Catherine Williamson Jan 1996

"Engineered Enjoyment": Technology, Capitalism, And The Female Body In Film., Catherine Williamson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation explores the link between technology, capitalism, and the female body in 20th century cinema. It argues that commodified pleasure, or "engineered enjoyment," is always produced by establishing technological control over the female body. The scope of this dissertation is limited to films produced during the post-World War II era. In Chapter One I define "engineered enjoyment" and show how film is the prototypical example of such. In Chapter Two I examine how the cinematic apparatus works as a pleasure-producing system and explore what happens when that system breaks down, as in the 1947 film Lady in the Lake. …

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Artificial Grammar Learning In A Dual Task Paradigm., Barbara Cochran Jan 1996

Artificial Grammar Learning In A Dual Task Paradigm., Barbara Cochran

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A series of experiments explored the effects of performing concurrent secondary tasks on learning letter strings created with a finite state artificial grammar. Experiments 1-2 compared a task which disrupted organized encoding to a task which simply required holding information in memory while encoding strings, as well as to two control tasks. Participants performing the disruptive task were worse at judging the grammaticality of test strings than were participants in the two single task control groups. Performance of the memory load group fell between the disruptive task group and the control groups, but was not significantly different from either. Experiments …

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Wordsworth's Mother Tongue: Identification, Separation, And Recognition., Robert C. Hale Jan 1996

Wordsworth's Mother Tongue: Identification, Separation, And Recognition., Robert C. Hale

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This psychoanalytic study complicates prevailing notions about William Wordsworth's representations of mothers. Wordsworth does not invariably conflate mothers with Nature or consistently construct women as silent objects of male quest. Rather, he explores a variety of mothers' voices, often associating them with language acquisition and poetic composition. In early work he acknowledges mothers' significance directly and creates more vocal mothers, while in later work and revisions he often conceals mothers' significance and depicts more object-like mothers. In the 1805 version of book two of The Prelude, Wordsworth recalls himself as a "blessed babe" who recognizes his mother as a separate …

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