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Changing Eyes: American Culture And The Photographic Image, 1918-1941., Melissa A. Mceuen Jan 1991

Changing Eyes: American Culture And The Photographic Image, 1918-1941., Melissa A. Mceuen

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

From 1918 to 1941, fast-paced changes and far-reaching crises occurred in all realms of American life--social, economic, political, cultural, and intellectual. Evidence of the culture's preoccupations showed up not only in written, but also in visual sources. Photographs helped to reveal the values of American culture, and did so with increasing frequency as the photographic process was further improved. Each visual image bore the marks of its culture, yet none provided a completely objective look at reality. For every picture was the product of the personality standing behind the camera. This study examines both the lives and the photographs of …

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Acquiring Vocabulary In A Foreign Language: Some Effects Of The Nature Of Instruction On The Knowledge And Use Of Words., Louise Stowell-Ruzicka Jan 1991

Acquiring Vocabulary In A Foreign Language: Some Effects Of The Nature Of Instruction On The Knowledge And Use Of Words., Louise Stowell-Ruzicka

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect that the nature of instruction of French vocabulary words has on student knowledge and use of the words on five different measures: a definition recognition test, a cloze plus word bank test, a comprehension of a text containing the words, a writing assignment designed to elicit free use of these words and a test of overall reading proficiency. Eighty-one high school students in the second year course of French constituted three treatment groups: (1) traditional instruction where students were required to learn a list of 12 words paired with their …

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Effects Of A Whole Language Approach Using Authentic French Texts On Student Comprehension And Attitude., Colette Hood Stelly Jan 1991

Effects Of A Whole Language Approach Using Authentic French Texts On Student Comprehension And Attitude., Colette Hood Stelly

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a Whole Language Approach (WLA), using authentic French stories, on measures of listening and reading comprehension of fourth-year high school students of French, and on their attitudes to learning French, as opposed to students using customary textbook materials in a conventional teacher-centered classroom setting. This investigation comprised two components: (a) a quantitative component which statistically determined results on measures of listening, reading and attitude, and, (b) a qualitative component which reviewed classroom procedures through observation and interview. Analysis of variance on four separate posttests showed statistically significant differences in …

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The Socioeconomic Aspects Of Beef Cattle Production In Louisiana., Emmanuel Kagaba Nzabanita Jan 1990

The Socioeconomic Aspects Of Beef Cattle Production In Louisiana., Emmanuel Kagaba Nzabanita

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study was divided into: (1) a descriptive study of the farm resources, management practices, veterinary services utilization, and socio-psychological characteristics of Louisiana ranchers in relation to beef cattle performance, (b) a classification of the ranchers according to their utilization of veterinary services with the objective of identifying producer characteristics that are associated with frequent, moderate, and non-use of veterinary services, and (c) identification of factors associated with continuing or ending beef cattle production. The intensity of management, herd health and veterinary services utilization was quantified by scoring and ranking indicator variables that defined these composite variables. Most ranchers had …

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Assessing Three Intervention Treatments To Modify Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons, Jane Marie Barbin Jan 1990

Assessing Three Intervention Treatments To Modify Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons, Jane Marie Barbin

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Lsu General Catalog 1990-1991, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College Jan 1990

Lsu General Catalog 1990-1991, 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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Authorial Introductions: Presentations Of The Self As Author In Prefaces And Autobiographies. (Volumes I And Ii)., Laurie Frances Leach Jan 1990

Authorial Introductions: Presentations Of The Self As Author In Prefaces And Autobiographies. (Volumes I And Ii)., Laurie Frances Leach

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation examines the prefaces and autobiographies of creative writers as "authorial introductions," textual spaces in which writers present themselves to their readers as authors. It consists of three main parts. Part One concerns autobiographical prefaces by two writers, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Mary Shelley, who did not write autobiographies and who were defensive about the autobiographical content of their prefaces. Both writers were ambivalent about authorship and hesitant about bringing themselves "forward in print," but within the limits of their prefaces, they were able to speak autobiographically and portray themselves as authors. Part Two examines the autobiographies and prefaces of …

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Age Of Onset And Duration Variables: Relationship To Primary And Secondary Psychopathology Of Bulimia Nervosa., Darlene Broussard Witcher Jan 1990

Age Of Onset And Duration Variables: Relationship To Primary And Secondary Psychopathology Of Bulimia Nervosa., Darlene Broussard Witcher

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Over the past decade there has been growing concern about the syndrome of bulimia nervosa. Current theoretical models of the etiology and symptomatology of bulimia predict that the psychopathology of the eating disorder worsens over time. The specific purposes of this study was to examine the effect of onset age and duration of the disorder on the primary and secondary psychopathology of bulimia nervosa at the time of presentation for treatment. The results suggest that binging and purging worsen with increasing duration and older age of onset, accompanied by increased weight and greater distortion of body size estimation. Furthermore, subjects …

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The Relationship Between Family Communication And Psychosocial Adjustment Of Cancer Patients., James Micheal Gotcher Jan 1990

The Relationship Between Family Communication And Psychosocial Adjustment Of Cancer Patients., James Micheal Gotcher

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between patient-family communication and psychosocial adjustment to cancer. Cancer patients receiving radiation therapy (n = 105) were interviewed using a semi-structured format. The majority of female subjects were being treated for breast cancer and the majority of male subjects for prostate cancer. Questionnaires assessing psychosocial adjustment and patient-family communication were employed. Psychosocial adjustment was tapped by means of the Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness Scale (PAIS). The PAIS provides a global adjustment score and taps seven independent domains of adjustment: health care orientation, vocational environment, domestic environment, sexual relations, extended family …

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Assessment Of Athletic Potential And Augmentation Of Performance In Thoroughbred Racehorses., John Daniel Harkins Jan 1990

Assessment Of Athletic Potential And Augmentation Of Performance In Thoroughbred Racehorses., John Daniel Harkins

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purposes of this dissertation were to (1) determine running abilities of horses on the racetrack, (2) design treadmill standard exercise tests (SETs) to measure exercise variables that correlate with racetrack performance, and (3) assess the influence of training, competition, and ergogenic aids on performance. Run times of 25 Thoroughbreds were determined during solo and competitive track runs of 1200, 1600, and 2000 meters. Cardiac, respiratory, and hematologic variables were later measured during treadmill SETs. Variables were correlated with average run times. Heart rate scores, V$\sb{200}$, plasma lactate values, and maximal oxygen uptake correlated best with performance. Interval and conventional …

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The Relations Between Stress, Mood And Insomnia., Susan Rubman Jan 1990

The Relations Between Stress, Mood And Insomnia., Susan Rubman

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Stress is hypothesized to cause increased cognitive and physiological arousal which is incompatible with sleep. Major life events have been implicated as a significant factor in the onset of chronic insomnia (Healey et al., 1981), and there is some suggestion that minor life events influence symptoms as well (Haynes et al., 1981). The present study was designed to evaluate and further clarify the role of daily minor stressors and mood variables on sleep in both normal sleepers and insomniacs. Subjects with insomnia secondary to medical or physical disorders were excluded from this study. Fifty-four adult subjects (20 mixed-complaint insomniacs, 17 …

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Assessment Of Social Competence In Populations Of Learning-Disabled, Behaviorally Disordered And Normal Adolescents., Teresa Jo Scardino Jan 1990

Assessment Of Social Competence In Populations Of Learning-Disabled, Behaviorally Disordered And Normal Adolescents., Teresa Jo Scardino

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The present investigation was designed to examine normal vs. impaired adolescents' social competence according to self, teacher, and parent report. Although the importance of social competence has been established with child and adult populations, few studies have assessed social competence of adolescents. Social competence of learning disabled (LD), behaviorally disordered (BD), and regular education (RE) adolescents was assessed. Nineteen BD, 20 LD, and 66 RE completed self-report measures of social skills and perceived communication/conflict with parents, and sociometric rankings of peers. Teachers of each participating student completed a teacher report measure of the adolescent's social skill, and parents of each …

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A Study Of Nursing Orientation In Two Urban Hospitals. (Volumes I And Ii)., Myrna Harris Cassimere Jan 1990

A Study Of Nursing Orientation In Two Urban Hospitals. (Volumes I And Ii)., Myrna Harris Cassimere

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This case study described the perceptions of participants during an orientation program in two urban hospitals. The conceptual framework of the study is based on the social systems theory of administration by Getzels and Guba (1957). Four propositions were used to guide interviews and observations for data collection. Data analysis was accomplished by the pattern matching technique described by Yin (1984). The study propositions were supported by the data. The participants of the study included new graduates and experienced nurses. The institutions involved and their orientation programs were perceived in a positive manner by the participants. Orientation instructors were perceived …

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Design Of A Two-Stage Procedure For Three-Class Screening., Chungtae Kim Jan 1990

Design Of A Two-Stage Procedure For Three-Class Screening., Chungtae Kim

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A two-stage screening procedure is developed for a situation where the items can be sold in one of two markets, or scrapped. The item's selling price and product specifications differ for each market. In the first stage of the screening procedure, each item is inspected on a surrogate variable that is correlated with the performance variable of interest. If a decision is not reached at this point, the item is subjected to a second-stage inspection on a performance variable. A loss in selling price is incurred by the producer when an item that meets the specifications of a higher-price market …

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Narrative And Everyday Experience: Performance Process In The Storytelling Of The Swiss Volhynian Mennonites. (Volumes I And Ii)., John Elmer Mccabe-Juhnke Jan 1990

Narrative And Everyday Experience: Performance Process In The Storytelling Of The Swiss Volhynian Mennonites. (Volumes I And Ii)., John Elmer Mccabe-Juhnke

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examines oral narrative performance within the cultural context of the Swiss Volhynian Mennonites in Moundridge, Kansas, whose forebears were members of a congregational group that migrated from the Russian Province of Volhynia in 1874. These immigrants strove to maintain Gemeinde--a mutually supportive community of believers separated from the world. A Swiss Volhynian Mennonite himself, the author tape-recorded interviews with second and third generation descendants of the Russian immigrants. Using the interview transcriptions and personal observation in the Moundridge community as primary data, the author demonstrates how the formative elements of everyday narrative performance both sustain and are shaped …

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Theoretical Orientations Of Chapter I Reading Teachers: Consistency Between Beliefs And Practices., Mary Margaret Mitchell Jan 1990

Theoretical Orientations Of Chapter I Reading Teachers: Consistency Between Beliefs And Practices., Mary Margaret Mitchell

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to investigate the consistency between Chapter I teachers' theoretical orientations and instructional practices related to preactive planning and interactive decision-making. Twenty-three Chapter I teachers were administered screening instruments that included: (a) a biographical survey, and (b) instruments focusing on teachers' theoretical orientations about reading and instructional choices. Primary consideration for selection included education and professional experience, beliefs about reading, and instructional decision-making. Based on this information, four Chapter I teachers, each with a reader-based orientation, were purposively selected to participate in this study. For each participant, the researcher selected a pull-out class (6-10 students) …

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Intrinsic Intertextuality:A Methodology For Analyzing The Seamless Intertext., Karen Sue Mitchell Jan 1990

Intrinsic Intertextuality:A Methodology For Analyzing The Seamless Intertext., Karen Sue Mitchell

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study argues for a methodology that applies contemporary theories of literature and performance to a certain kind of performance script I call a seamless intertext. Working deductively from theory to dramatic text, I explore what selected portions of extant performance and textual theory have to offer in examining, describing, and explaining these seamless intertexts. Working inductively from dramatic text to theory, I extend and offer further clarification and an extension of current theory through a more detailed explanation of the scripting explicit in each dramatic text. In the study I synthesize existing theory in intertextuality and define and describe …

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Stress And Headache., Thomas Hamilton Mosley Jr Jan 1990

Stress And Headache., Thomas Hamilton Mosley Jr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Stress is the most frequently cited precipitant of both migraine and muscle-contraction headache. Although stress is thought to play a causal role in the etiology of headache, past research has relied solely on cross-sectional designs and between-subjects data analytic techniques, thus severely restricting conclusions regarding causality and obscuring potentially meaningful individual variability. The present investigation provided a partial replication and extension of prior research on the relation between minor stress and headache and attempted to redress a number of prior methodological shortcomings. A longitudinal design and within subject, lagged, time-series regression analyses were employed. Migraine (n = 26) and muscle-contraction …

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Keeping The Faith: Douglas Southall Freeman, 1886-1953. (Volumes I And Ii)., John R. Peacock Iii Jan 1990

Keeping The Faith: Douglas Southall Freeman, 1886-1953. (Volumes I And Ii)., John R. Peacock Iii

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This is a study of the life and career of Douglas Southall Freeman (1886-1953), whose careful scheduling of every minute of every day allowed him to pursue two full-time careers--one as a historian and one as editor of a major daily newspaper. In both occupations his views were shaped by the traditional values he acquired in this youth--religious conviction, reverence for heroes, devotion to duty, self-control, fortitude, industry, thrift. Growing up in Virginia during the era of the Confederate celebration, Freeman came to admire one hero above all others--Robert E. Lee, a man whose character best exemplified his own moral …

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The Eating Disorders Diagnostic Inventory (Eddi): The Development Of A New Assessment Instrument., Cecilia Jo Davis Jan 1990

The Eating Disorders Diagnostic Inventory (Eddi): The Development Of A New Assessment Instrument., Cecilia Jo Davis

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The area of eating disorders have been intensively by both the psychological and medical researchers over the last two decades. Differential diagnosis of the four most prevalent eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, compulsive overeating, and the non-binging obese) continues to be a problem for both researchers and clinicians. Diagnosis of these disorders has been complicated by the many changes in diagnostic criteria for each of the disorders. One consequence of these frequent changes is that there is no single self-report inventory for differential diagnosis which is based on currently accepted diagnostic criteria. The purpose of this study was the …

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Salesperson Performance, Satisfaction And Turnover: A Review, A Reconceptualization And An Empirical Investigation., Debbie S. Easterling Jan 1990

Salesperson Performance, Satisfaction And Turnover: A Review, A Reconceptualization And An Empirical Investigation., Debbie S. Easterling

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Search for a meaningful relationship between job satisfaction and job performance has continued for more than three decades. Despite ongoing theoretical, empirical and practical interest, research findings have been inconclusive. Literature reviews indicate that there still exists much confusion concerning the relationship between satisfaction and performance. Three conceptualizations of the relationship between satisfaction and performance have been proposed: (1) satisfaction is an antecedent of performance (a view associated with the early "human relations" school of thought); (2) the view that performance leads to satisfaction (through its impact on intrinsic and extrinsic rewards); and (3) the view that the relationship between …

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The Effects Of The Discussion Of And The Drawing Of Political Cartoons As Prewriting Activities To Increase Fifth And Sixth-Graders' Ability To Write Persuasively., Douglas Mark Granier Jan 1990

The Effects Of The Discussion Of And The Drawing Of Political Cartoons As Prewriting Activities To Increase Fifth And Sixth-Graders' Ability To Write Persuasively., Douglas Mark Granier

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The effects of the discussion of and the drawing of political cartoons as prewriting activities to increase fifth and sixth graders' ability to write persuasively were investigated. The subjects were 53 males and 49 females from two fifth grade and two sixth grade classes in a university laboratory school. The study was a randomized, pretest-posttest control group design with two treatment groups (discussion of political cartoons and drawing of political cartoons) and two control groups (discussion of a topic and drawing about a topic). Stratified random placement based on pretest scores enabled formation of four groups of approximately equal ability. …

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Variability Of Practice And The Contextual Interference Effect In Motor Skill Acquisition., Kellie Green Hall Jan 1990

Variability Of Practice And The Contextual Interference Effect In Motor Skill Acquisition., Kellie Green Hall

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The relationship between variability of practice and contextual interference was investigated in this study. The hypothesis proposed here was that these two effects are compatible, in that each addresses different learning situations. That is, the contextual interference effect relates only to situations where skill variations are controlled by different generalized motor programs, while practice variability relates only to situations where skill variations are parameter modifications of the same generalized motor program (Magill & Hall, in press). To test this compatibility hypothesis, two experiments were reported that were based on Wulf and Schmidt (1988). Blocked and random practice schedules were added …

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The Effects Of Imagined Interaction And Planning On Speech Fluency And Message Strategy Selection., Terre Huhn Allen Jan 1990

The Effects Of Imagined Interaction And Planning On Speech Fluency And Message Strategy Selection., Terre Huhn Allen

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of the present investigation was to examine the impact that preprocessing of conversation episodes has on speech fluency and message strategy selection. This study sought to define imagined interaction activity as a precommunicative mental rehearsal strategy. The primary focus of the present investigation was to link the rehearsal function of imagined interaction to preplanning for anticipated encounters. The present investigation used an experimental design that included two independent variables; (1) induced rehearsal; and (2) an individual tendency to rehearse mentally, operationalized via imagined interaction. Five variables served as dependent measures for the present investigation. Three pausal variables were …

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Theoretical And Pedagogical Applications Of Discourse Analysis To Professional Writing., Kim Sydow Campbell Jan 1990

Theoretical And Pedagogical Applications Of Discourse Analysis To Professional Writing., Kim Sydow Campbell

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation attempts to show the utility of discourse analysis for professional writing. The articles collected here fall into three categories: Chapter One provides an overview of the need for a discourse analysis approach in writing research; Chapters Two and Three demonstrate applications of Speech Act Theory to problems in tone; and Chapters Four, Five and Six suggest the role that cohesion and coherence play in professional writing. Chapter One notes that, with the emphasis on process, discourse based research has largely fallen out of favor with writing specialists. Despite this lack of enthusiasm, this chapter demonstrates the importance of …

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Sympathy, Gender, And The Writing Of Value In Late Eighteenth Century English Letters., Lucinda Cole Jan 1990

Sympathy, Gender, And The Writing Of Value In Late Eighteenth Century English Letters., Lucinda Cole

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study of sympathy is best described as an historically-grounded feminist critique in response to a contemporary critical debate. Recently, "sympathy," "compassion," and "care" have been promoted by many scholars interested in positing alternatives to a clearly masculinist ethical tradition derived from Kant, Hegel, and others. Yet missing from this work is a critical examination of the ethical tradition extending from Hume's writings in the eighteenth century to Max Scheler's in our own. My major purpose within this context is to demonstrate how sympathy functions as a major term in systems of value no less male-biased than the ethics of …

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Panel Analysis: A Critical Method For Analyzing The Rhetoric Of Comic Book Form., Ralph Randolph Duncan Ii Jan 1990

Panel Analysis: A Critical Method For Analyzing The Rhetoric Of Comic Book Form., Ralph Randolph Duncan Ii

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study devises a method of rhetorical criticism, panel analysis, for the comic book medium. Panel analysis focuses on how the unique form of the comic book medium communicates content. Panel analysis consists of three components: historical context, micro analysis, and macro analysis. The historical component makes use of a humanistic historical approach to place a comic book or a body of comic book work in the contexts of the creator's personal history and the evolution of the comic book medium. These contexts provide understanding of the origins of the various formal aspects of the work(s) being studied. The micro …

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Attribution Processes In Mother-Adolescent Conflict., Nancy Caryn Grace Jan 1990

Attribution Processes In Mother-Adolescent Conflict., Nancy Caryn Grace

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Because of the potentially serious consequences associated with parent-adolescent conflict, researchers have delineated variables (i.e., communication skills deficits) that might escalate conflict. Despite the theoretical support for the role of cognitive variables in parent-adolescent conflict, this area has received little research attention. In contrast, studies using adult subjects have repeatedly demonstrated a relationship between cognitive variables, (i.e., attributions) and conflict behaviors and relationship dissatisfaction. Researchers have found that distressed spouses tend to emphasize aversive spousal behaviors by attributing them to global and stable causes that reside within their spouses. Additionally, they perceive negative behavior as intentional, selfishly motivated, and blameworthy. …

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"Her Excellence To Marre": The Problem Of Feminine Authority In Spenser's "Faerie Queene"., Mary Antonia Villeponteaux Jan 1990

"Her Excellence To Marre": The Problem Of Feminine Authority In Spenser's "Faerie Queene"., Mary Antonia Villeponteaux

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Spenser has difficulty expressing an acceptable version of his queen's authority in The Faerie Queene. He must valorize her monarchy and its power, but his uneasiness about female political authority emerges throughout the text. Like the Petrarchan poet who fictionalizes his abject devotion to his lady while he also creates and so controls her through the same fiction, Spenser praises the queen's authority while at the same time he attempts to control it and contain it in the poem. This uneasy process is exemplified in the figure of Britomart: Spenser initially presents her as the near-perfect champion of Elizabeth's signature …

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A New Approach To Analyzing High-Resolution Aerial Photographs Of Urban Areas., Timothy Dwayne Phillips Jan 1990

A New Approach To Analyzing High-Resolution Aerial Photographs Of Urban Areas., Timothy Dwayne Phillips

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation proposes a new approach for analyzing high resolution aerial photographs of urban areas. Analyzing aerial photographs is the process of constructing an overall description of a scene. It involves knowledge of visual sensors, computing systems, artificial intelligence, software engineering, and perceptual psychology. Researchers have had only limited success in this area. This dissertation considers a high level analysis approach. Most aerial photograph interpretation systems concentrate on analyzing an airport, roadway, or urban scene. Those systems, however, do not explain how they know they were examining such a scene. This dissertation concentrates on how to reach that point. It …

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