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Dark Water: Rememory, Biopower, And Black Feminist Art, Stephanie Troutman, Brenna Johnson

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

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The Spaces In Between: Foreign Language Education As Critical And Intercultural Education, Paola Giorgis

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

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Cloned This Way: Emphatic Dissonance And Mixed Messages In The Representations Of Non-Heterosexual Sex Acts In Three Television Series, Vincent W. Youngbauer, Joseph Jones

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Don Draper,Teacher-As-Artist: A Diffractive Reading Of Mad Men, Gabriel Huddleston, Sam Rocha

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Culturally Responsive Teaching Across Pk-20: Honoring The Historical Naming Practices Of Students Of Color, Norma Angelica Marrun

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Introduction: Issue 17.3, Kenneth Varner, David Lee Carlson

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Structure Based Modulation Of Electron Dynamics In Meso-(4-Pyridyl)-Bodipys: A Computational And Synthetic Approach, Daniel J. Lamaster, Nichole E.M. Kaufman, Adam S. Bruner, M. Graça H. Vicente

Faculty Publications

© 2018 American Chemical Society. The effects of structural modification on the electronic structure and electron dynamics of cationic meso-(4-pyridyl)-BODIPYs were investigated. A library of 2,6-difunctionalized meso-(4-pyridyl)-BODIPYs bearing various electron-withdrawing substituents was designed, and DFT calculations were used to model the redox properties, while TDDFT was used to determine the effects of functionalization on the excited states. Structural modification was able to restructure the low-lying molecular orbitals to effectively inhibit d-PeT. A new meso-(4-pyridyl)-BODIPY bearing 2,6-dichloro groups was synthesized and shown to exhibit enhanced charge recombination fluorescence. The fluorescence enhancement was determined to be the result of functionalization modulating the …

Continuous-Discrete Sequential Observers Under Sampling And Input Delays, Frederic Mazenc, Michael Malisoff

Faculty Publications

We provide continuous-discrete sequential observers for linear systems with input delays, sampling in the controls and in the outputs, and uncertainties. We also include uncertainties and delays in the output. Our observer allows arbitrarily long constant delays in the input and in the output, and can be used to provide input-to-state stabilizing controllers under uncertain sampled outputs, sampling in the control, and arbitrarily long input and output delays. Since our control does not contain distributed terms, this paper is an extension of the recent prediction technique based on subsequential observers. This provides a useful alternative to existing methods that contained …

Soil Erodibility Differs According To Heritable Trait Variation And Nutrient-Induced Plasticity In The Salt Marsh Engineer Spartina Alterniflora, Brittany M. Bernik, John H. Pardue, Michael J. Blum

Faculty Publications

Use of landform engineers for habitat restoration has often resulted in unanticipated outcomes. It is possible that departures from expectation arise because applications do not adequately account for the influence of heritable and non-heritable phenotypic variation on ecosystem attributes. In this study, we performed a common garden greenhouse experiment to determine whether soil shear strength—a characteristic linked to erosion resistance—varies according to heritable and plastic trait expression in Spartina alterniflora grown under contrasting nutrient regimes. We detected heritable variation across a broad spectrum of functional traits, including nutrient uptake. We also found that S. alterniflora exhibited trait-specific differences in nutrient-induced …

Collaboration In Crowdsourcing Contests: Towards An Understanding Of Collective Behavior In Crowdsourcing Contests, Hanieh Javadi Khasraghi

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

With the advances in internet technologies and the emergence of crowdsourcing, organizations are now increasingly looking outside their boundaries for solving problems. These new technologies have enabled companied to tap into online crowds with variety of skills, talents, experience, and knowledge. Yet, the success of crowdsourcing depends on high quality participation of crowdsourcing individuals and teams. In recent studies, examining the effect of simultaneous collaboration and competition mechanisms on individual and team performance in crowdsourcing have received considerable attention. But, none of these studies examined how different levels of collaboration affect team performance in crowdsourcing contests. In this paper, using …

The Effects Of Biochar And Nitrogen Stabilizers Application On Forage Crop Growth, Greenhouse Gas Emission And Soil Quality, Joseph Elias Rodrigues Mikhael

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

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Forage systems are important for animal production. Nitrogen fertilization and herbicides use has led to a significant increase in forage production. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effects of biochar and N-(n-butyl) thiophosphoric triamide + dicyandiamide (NBPT+DCD) application on manure and urea fertilized soil by focusing on nitrogen fertilizer efficiency use, greenhouse gases emissions, microbial community, soil aggregate stability, and organic carbon functional groups. In addition, herbicides effect on greenhouse gases emission was assessed. Biochar and NBPT+DCD increased nitrogen use efficiency of both fertilizers managements and reduced the N₂O emissions following manure fertilization. However, NBPT+DCD was …

Local Vs. National: How Twitter Reflects News Coverage Of Colin Kaepernick Protests, Jared Paul Joseph

LSU Master's Theses

Local and national media dedicate different levels of coverage to issues depending on its relevancy to their audiences. This study uses news outlets’ social media activity to show that coverage discrepancies occurred with former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s National Anthem protest. Because his protest reached national headlines, Kaepernick suffered the same fate of many protesting athletes in the past. This study will show how national media carried his story to national headlines and framed his protest negatively. The findings show that local media were the least active among the three media levels, local, regional and national, in covering the Kaepernick …

Droplet Impinging Behavior On Surfaces With Wettability Contrasts, Bahador Farshchian, Jacoby Pierce, Mohammad S. Beheshti, Sunggook Park, Namwon Kim

Faculty Publications

Heterogeneous substrates with moderate and extreme wettability contrasts, which comprise superhydrophobic/hydrophilic and superhydrophobic/extremely hydrophilic surfaces, respectively, were fabricated. The interactions of impinging water droplets with the surfaces of wettability contrasts were investigated experimentally. The impinging droplets that slightly touch the hydrophilic or extremely hydrophilic areas on each substrate exhibit a directional rebounding towards the more wetting surfaces, i.e., hydrophilic or extremely hydrophilic surface. The trajectory and landing distance of the rebounded droplets were tailored by controlling the releasing height of the droplet, wetting contrast across the border, and portion of the droplet touching the more wetting surface of the substrates …

Verification And Evaluation Of A Passive Intensity Modulation Device For Bolus Conformal Therapy, Elizabeth Noel Hilliard

LSU Master's Theses

Purpose: Bolus electron conformal therapy (BECT) provides effective radiation treatment for superficial cancers and other diseases close to the skin surface, but can have as great as a 30% planning target volume (PTV) dose heterogeneity due to scattering from the irregular proximal bolus surface. Intensity modulated (IM) BECT can improve PTV dose homogeneity, but is not currently available. This study fabricated patient-specific passive intensity modulators and validated their delivering planned dose distributions calculated by a modified pencil beam redefinition algorithm (PBRA).

Methods: Two test-patterns and four patient-specific intensity modulators were designed, fabricated, and tested. Dose plans were generated …

Effects Of Maternal Nutrition On The Expression Of Genomic Imprinted Genes In Ovine Fetuses, Jingyue (Ellie) Duan, Mingyuan Zhang, Kaleigh Flock, Sahar Al Seesi, Ion Mandoiu, Amanda Jones, Elizabeth Johnson, Sambhu Pillai, Maria Hoffman, Katelyn Mcfadden, Hesheng Jiang, Sarah Reed, Kristen Govoni, Steve Zinn, Zongliang Jiang, Xiuchun (Cindy) Tian

Faculty Publications

© 2018, © 2018 The Author (s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon of differential allelic expression based on parental origin. To date, 263 imprinted genes have been identified among all investigated mammalian species. However, only 21 have been described in sheep, of which 11 are annotated in the current ovine genome. Here, we aim to i) use DNA/RNA high throughput sequencing to identify new monoallelically expressed and imprinted genes in day 135 ovine fetuses and ii) determine whether maternal diet (100%, 60%, or 140% of National Research Council …

Unintended Consequences Of The Dodd-Frank $10 Billion Asset Size Threshold, Laura Camille Alford

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act (DF) created asset size thresholds associated with considerable costs. Avoidance of these thresholds has changed the distribution of banks and created a discontinuity around $10 billion in total assets. The thresholds create incentives for managers below the thresholds to stifle asset growth. This study examines loan sales and securitizations, marketable securities, and the allowance for loan losses account as methods of slowing growth, and also tests for unintended consequences of suboptimal asset shifting on risk, regulatory ratings, and earnings quality. Results demonstrate that post DF, slow growing private financial institutions (FIs) just below the threshold increase …

Customer Perspectives On Sales Strategies: A Relational Approach, Juliana Catherine White

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Relationship marketing strategies have long been known to affect salespeople and the customers they serve. However, there is still much to learn about the mechanisms that drive such buyer-seller relationships. This research examines how a salesperson’s behavior, relational orientation, and individual disposition dynamically interact to influence customers in the business to business marketing environment. Data collected from the customers’ point of view reveal several unique salesperson competencies and strategies that affect the buyer-seller relationship. The final dataset (n = 206) included customers’ observations about their salesperson and perceptions of relationship quality. The key findings suggest that the perceived quality of …

Emission Recovery And Stability Enhancement Of Inorganic Perovskite Quantum Dots, Hua Wang, Ning Sui, Xue Bai, Yu Zhang, Quinton Rice, Felix Jaetae Seo, Qingbo Zhang, Vicki L. Colvin, William W. Yu

Faculty Publications

Copyright © 2018 American Chemical Society. Inorganic lead halide perovskite quantum dots (PQDs), especially red emission PQDs, are well-known to easily lose their luminescence emission with time, which shows from strong emission of fresh PQDs to no emission of aged PQDs. Here, we demonstrate that trioctylphosphine (TOP) can effectively and instantly recover the luminescence emission of aged red PQDs, making the "dead" PQDs "reborn". Furthermore, TOP also works to improve the emission intensity of freshly synthesized PQDs. In this process, TOP does not make any detectable structural changes to PQDs. Besides, TOP can effectively enhance the stability of PQDs against …

Diel Patterns Of Variable Fluorescence And Carbon Fixation Of Picocyanobacteria Prochlorococcus-Dominated Phytoplankton In The South China Sea Basin, Yuyuan Xie, Edward A. Laws, Lei Yang, Bangqin Huang

Faculty Publications

The various photosynthetic apparatus and light utilization strategies of phytoplankton are among the critical factors that regulate the distribution of phytoplankton and primary productivity in the ocean. Active chlorophyll fluorescence has been a powerful technique for assessing the nutritional status of phytoplankton by studying the dynamics of photosynthesis. Further studies of the energetic stoichiometry between light absorption and carbon fixation have enhanced understanding of the ways phytoplankton adapt to their niches. To explore the ecophysiology of a Prochlorococcus-dominated phytoplankton assemblage, we conducted studies of the diel patterns of variable fluorescence and carbon fixation by phytoplankton in the oligotrophic South China …

Improved Growth Estimates For Lethrinus Harak: Measuring Increments, Adjusting Ages, And Fitting Flexible Growth Models, Stephen Midway

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Fishing Pressure And Species Traits Affect Stream Fish Invasions Both Directly And Indirectly, Brandon K. Peoples, Stephen R. Midway, Brian Leung

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The Potential For Cryptic Population Structure To Sustain A Heavily Exploited Marine Flatfish Stock, Stephen R. Midway, J. Wilson White, Frederick S. Scharf

Faculty Publications

Complex spatial structure is widely viewed as an attribute that can contribute to stability in fish populations. Depending on aspects of stock demography and productivity, the existence of complete or partial spatial refugia can enable population persistence when faced with high rates of exploitation. The Southern Flounder Paralichthys lethostigma has been harvested extensively by inshore fisheries in North Carolina for more than three decades, with estimates of fishing mortality (F) surpassing 2.0 year⁻¹ in several years and systems. Potential hypotheses to explain population persistence under heavy exploitation include high levels of recruitment at low stock sizes (high steepness) and/or …

Functional Analysis Of Short Linear Motifs In The Plant Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor Siamese, Narender Kumar, Renee Dale, Daniel Kemboi, Elizabeth A. Zeringue, Naohiro Kato, John C. Larkin

Faculty Publications

© 2018 American Society of Plant Biologists. All rights reserved. Endoreplication, a modified cell cycle in which DNA is replicated without subsequent cell division, plays an important but poorly understood role in plant growth and in plant responses to biotic and abiotic stress. The Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) SIAMESE (SIM) gene encodes the first identified member of the SIAMESE-RELATED (SMR) family of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors. SIM controls endoreplication during trichome development, and sim mutant trichomes divide several times instead of endoreplicating their DNA. The SMR family is defined by several short linear amino acid sequence motifs of largely unknown function, and …

Early Detection Of Fracture Failure In Slm Am Tension Testing With Talbot-Lau Neutron Interferometry, Adam J. Brooks, Hong Yao, Jumao Yuan, Omoefe Kio, Caroline G. Lowery, Henning Markötter, Nikolay Kardjilov, Shengmin Guo, Leslie G. Butler

Faculty Publications

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Tensile stress in selective laser melted (SLM) stainless steel 316 (SS316) bars was studied with neutron imaging methods for measurement of attenuation, scattering, and diffraction. The hypotheses for stress failure includes modifications to both the grain structure and residual porosity. Neutron Bragg edge imaging showed a change in crystallographic structure and/or texture at a pre-existing fracture, but did not provide evidence for presumptive crack formation. A Talbot-Lau grating-based neutron interferometer yielded better than 100 μm spatial resolution for the attenuation images and was tuned to an autocorrelation scattering length of 1.97 μm for the dark-field (scattering) …

Designing Agricultural Economics And Agribusiness Undergraduate Programs, Jeffrey M. Gillespie, Maria Bampasidou

Faculty Publications

© 2018 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence. Agricultural economics and agribusiness (AEAB) programs offer their graduates unique exposure to agricultural markets, policy, and production systems, which differentiates them from business programs. Despite the advantages associated with AEAB degrees, a significant challenge universities and AEAB graduates face is a general lack of recognition of what agricultural economics is and what an agricultural economist does. Using data collected from U.S. 1862 and 1890 land grant universities, we stress the importance of designing effective AEAB curricula based on enrollment trends, …

An Integrated Approach To Analyzing Risk In Bioeconomic Models, Biswo N. Poudel, Krishna P. Paudel

Faculty Publications

Copyright © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Abstract: We provide a new integrated approach to analyzing risk in a setting where both exogenous and endogenous risks are present. We explicitly model these risks to understand their implications to the precautionary principle. We find that, among other things, the increase of exogenous risk in the presence of endogenous risk has a different impact on precaution than the increase in exogenous risk in the presence of only exogenous risk. While the latter is known to decrease precaution, the former unambiguously increases the precaution in the presence of stock effect. Recommendations for Resource Managers: …