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F02rs Sgb No. 7 (Hispanic Engineers), Cotton, Lambert

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To appropriate Three Thousand ($3,000) dollars to the Society of Hispanic Engineers to help defray the cost of attending the “Hispanic Engineer National achievement awards Conference” to be held on Thursday through Sunday, October 17-20, 2002 In South Padre Island, Texas.

F02rs Sgb No. 1 (Budget), Broussard

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To budget the funds of Student Government for the fiscal year 2002-2003; to appropriate funds for activities, projects, and programs of Student Government; to appropriate grants to certain student groups and organizations; according to the Constitution and by-laws.

F02rs Sgb No. 15 (Equestrian Team), Nolen

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To appropriate one thousand three hundred forty eight dollars ($1,348) to the Equestrian Team at LSU to help defray the cost of attending the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) horse show at West Texas A&M in Amarillo, Texas on February 7-10, 2003

F02rs Sgb No. 10 (Block & Bridle), Heltz, Busada

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To appropriate one thousand four-hundred and eight ($1,348) dollars to the block & bridle club to defray the cost of putting on the all student rodeo in the John M. Parker Coliseum november 7-9, 2002

F02rs Sgb No. 14 (Ffa), Heltz

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To appropriate four hundred dollars ($400) to the Collegiate FFA Chapter to defray the cost of attending the National Agriculture Education Conference (NAEC) and Alpha Tau Alpha (ATA) Conclave, held in Louisville, Kentucky on October 30 through November 2, 2002.

F02rs Sgb No. 11 (Asla), Ducote

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

to appropriate six hundred dollars ($600) to the American Society of landscape architects (ASLA) to defryay the lodging cost at the ASLA Annual meeting and Expo to be held October 17^th -22^nd 2002 in San Jose, California.

F02rs Sgb No. 13 (Honors College), Hayter

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To appropriate Eight Hundred Twenty-Three Dollars ($823.00) to the Honors College Advocates to help defray the cost of attending the Thirty Seventh Annual National Collegiate Honors Council Convention to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from Wednesday, October 30 through Sunday, November 3, 2002.

F02rs Sgb No. 12 (Spectrum Alliance), Wells

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

to appropriate One-Thousand Five Hundred Fifty Four Dollars ($1,554) to the Spectrum Alliance to help defray the registration and lodging cost to attend the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) “Creating Change Conference,” to be held in Portland, Oregon from Wednesday, November 6 through Sunday November 10, 2002.

F02rs Sgb No. 8 (Roo), Ducote, Nolen

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To amend Chapter 5 of the LSU A&M Student Senate Rules of Order to include ex-officio Academic Committee representation of the Honors College.

F02rs Sgr No. 4 (Horticulture), Fisher, Heltz

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

to reaffirm the permanent location of the Horticulture Hill Farm Teaching Facility on the LSU A&M Campus, by demanding that it remain at its present location immediately west of the Lod Cook Conference Center, and to call for specific action to be taken as it concerns LSU’s Master Plan

F02rs Sgr No. 8 (Classes), Wesley

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

No abstract provided.

F02rs Sgr No. 9 (Grade Dist), Wells, Nolen

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To recommend to the LSU faculty and administration that grading distributions be made publicly accessible via the Louisiana State University website.

Mammalian Retroelements, Prescott L. Deininger, Mark A. Batzer

Faculty Publications

The eukaryotic genome has undergone a series of epidemics of amplification of mobile elements that have resulted in most eukaryotic genomes containing much more of this 'junk' DNA than actual coding DNA. The majority of these elements utilize an RNA intermediate and are termed retroelements. Most of these retroelements appear to amplify in evolutionary waves that insert in the genome and then gradually diverge. In humans, almost half of the genome is recognizably derived from retroelements, with the two elements that are currently actively amplifying, L1 and Alu, making up about 25% of the genome and contributing extensively to disease. …

Identification Of A Streptolysin S-Associated Gene Cluster And Its Role In The Pathogenesis Of Streptococcus Iniae Disease, Jeffrey D. Fuller, Alvin C. Camus, Carla L. Duncan, Victor Nizet, Darrin J. Bast, Ronald L. Thune, Donald E. Low, Joyce C.S. De Azavedo

Faculty Publications

Streptococcus iniae causes meningoencephalitis and death in cultured fish species and soft-tissue infection in humans. We recently reported that S. iniae is responsible for local tissue necrosis and bacteremia in a murine subcutaneous infection model. The ability to cause bacteremia in this model is associated with a genetic profile unique to strains responsible for disease in fish and humans (J. D. Fuller, D. J. Bast, V. Nizet, D. E. Low, and J. C. S. de Azavedo, Infect. Immun. 69:1994-2000, 2001). S. iniae produces a cytolysin that confers a hemolytic phenotype on blood agar media. In this study, we characterized the …

Louisiana Agriculture Fall, 2002, Lsu Agcenter

Louisiana Agriculture

No abstract provided.

The Composition Of Cosmic Rays At The Knee, S. P. Swordy, L. F. Fortson, J. Hinton, J. Hörandel, J. Knapp, C. L. Pryke, T. Shibata, S. P. Wakely, Z. Cao, M. L. Cherry, S. Coutu, J. Cronin, R. Engel, J. W. Fowler, K. H. Kampert, J. Kettler, D. B. Kieda, J. Matthews, S. A. Minnick, A. Moiseev, D. Muller, M. Roth, A. Sill, G. Spiczak

Faculty Publications

The observation of a small change in spectral slope, or 'knee' in the fluxes of cosmic rays near energies 1015 eV has caused much speculation since its discovery over 40 years ago. The origin of this feature remains unknown. A small workshop to review some modern experimental measurements of this region was held at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, USA in June 2000. This paper summarizes the results presented at this workshop and the discussion of their interpretation in the context of hadronic models of atmospheric air showers. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Heca, A Member Of A Class Of Adhesins Produced By Diverse Pathogenic Bacteria, Contributes To The Attachment, Aggregation, Epidermal Cell Killing, And Virulence Phenotypes Of Erwinia Chrysanthemi Ec16 On Nicotiana Clevelandii Seedlings, Clemencia M. Rojas, Jong Hyun Ham, Wen Ling Deng, Jeff J. Doyle, Alan Collmer

Faculty Publications

Erwinia chrysanthemi is representative of a broad class of bacterial pathogens that are capable of inducing necrosis in plants. The E. chrysanthemi EC16 hecA gene predicts a 3,850-aa member of the Bordetella pertussis filamentous hemagglutinin family of adhesins. A hecA::Tn7 mutant was reduced in virulence on Nicotiana clevelandii seedlings after inoculation without wounding. Epifluorescence and confocal laser-scanning microscopy observations of hecA and wild-type cells expressing the green fluorescent protein revealed that the mutant is reduced in its ability to attach and then form aggregates on leaves and to cause an aggregate-associated killing of epidermal cells. Cell killing also depended on …

Triples Of Arrangements And Local Systems, Daniel C. Cohen

Faculty Publications

For a triple of complex hyperplane arrangements, there is a well-known long exact sequence relating the cohomology of the complements. We observe that this result extends to certain local coefficient systems, and use this extension to study the characteristic varieties of arrangements. We show that the first characteristic variety may contain components that are translated by characters of any order, thereby answering a question of A. Suciu.

Atpase Activity Of The Msba Lipid Flippase Of Escherichia Coli, William T. Doerrler, Christian R.H. Raetz

Faculty Publications

Escherichia coli MsbA, the proposed inner membrane lipid flippase, is an essential ATP-binding cassette transporter protein with homology to mammalian multidrug resistance proteins. Depletion or loss of function of MsbA results in the accumulation of lipopolysaccharide and phospholipids in the inner membrane of E. coli. MsbA modified with an N-terminal hexahistidine tag was overexpressed, solubilized with a nonionic detergent, and purified by nickel affinity chromatography to ∼95% purity. The ATPase activity of the purified protein was stimulated by phospholipids. When reconstituted into liposomes prepared from E. coli phospholipids, MsbA displayed an apparent Km of 878 μM and a Vmax of …

The Distant Type Ia Supernova Rate, R. Pain, S. Fabbro, M. Sullivan, R. S. Ellis, G. Aldering, P. Astier, S. E. Deustua, A. S. Fruchter, G. Goldhaber, A. Goobar, D. E. Groom, D. Hardin, I. M. Hook, D. A. Howell, M. J. Irwin, A. G. Kim, M. Y. Kim, R. A. Knop, J. C. Lee, C. Lidman, R. G. Mcmahon, P. E. Nugent, N. Panagia, C. R. Pennypacker, S. Perlmutter, P. Ruiz-Lapuente, K. Schahmaneche, B. Schaefer, N. A. Walton

Faculty Publications

We present a measurement of the rate of distant Type la supernovae derived using four large subsets of data from the Supernova Cosmology Project. Within this fiducial sample, which surveyed about 12 deg2, 38 supernovae were detected at redshifts 0.25-0.85. In a spatially flat cosmological model consistent with the results obtained by the Supernova Cosmology Project, we derive a rest-frame Type la supernova rate at a mean redshift z ≃ 0.55 of 1.53-0.25-0.31-0.28-0.32 × 10-4 h 3 Mpc-3 yr-1 or 0.58-0.09-0.09-0.10-0.10 h2 SNu (1 SNu = 1 supernova per century per 1010 LB⊙), where the first uncertainty is statistical and …

The Nature Of Interchain Excitations In Conjugated Polymers: Spatially-Varying Interfacial Solvatochromism Of Annealed Meh-Ppv Films Studied By Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy (Nsom), Richard D. Schaller, Lynn F. Lee, Justin C. Johnson, Louis H. Haber, Richard J. Saykally, John Vieceli, Ilan Benjamin, Thuc Quyen Nguyen, Benjamin J. Schwartz

Faculty Publications

The nature of interchain excitations in conjugated polymers was discussed. The spatially-varying solvatochromism of annealed poly(2-methoxy-5-(2′-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylene vinylene) (MEH-PPV) films were studied by near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM). The solvatochromic spectral shifts of the interfacial luminescence were measured as a function of solvent polarity. The results were analyzed with an interfacial dielectric continuum model to determine the dipole moment of emissive excited states.

Little Qualitative Rna Misexpression In Sterile Male F1 Hybrids Of Drosophila Pseudoobscura And D. Persimilis, Jane Reiland, Mohamed A.F. Noor

Faculty Publications

Background: Although the genetics of hybrid sterility has been the subject of evolutionary studies for over sixty years, no one has shown the reason(s) why alleles that operate normally within species fail to function in another genetic background. Several lines of evidence suggest that failures in normal gene transcription contribute to hybrid dysfunctions, but genome-wide studies of gene expression in pure-species and hybrids have not been undertaken. Here, we study genome-wide patterns of expression in Drosophila pseudoobscura, D. persimilis, and their sterile F1 hybrid males using differential display. Results: Over five thousand amplifications were analyzed, and 3312 were present in …

Local Systems On Nilpotent Orbits And Weighted Dynkin Diagrams, Pramod N. Achar, Eric N. Sommers

Faculty Publications

We study the Lusztig-Vogan bijection for the case of a local system. We compute the bijection explicitly in type A for a local system and then show that the dominant weights obtained for different local systems on the same orbit are related in a manner made precise in the paper. We also give a conjecture (putatively valid for all groups) detailing how the weighted Dynkin diagram for a nilpotent orbit in the dual Lie algebra should arise under the bijection. © 2002 American Mathematical Society.

Faculty Senate Resolution 03-03, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Faculty Senate Resolution on the disproportionate salary increase of the Chancellor, adopted on September 3, 2002.

All Is Fair? Lonnie R. Speer Shatters Myths With Tales Of Mistreated Pows, Leah Wood Jewett

Civil War Book Review

Lonnie R. Speer is a historian and lecturer whose expertise lies in the history of Civil War prisons and prisoners of war. He is the author of Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War (Stackpole Books,1997). His latest book, War of Vengeance: Acts of Retaliation on POWs in t....

Feature Essay, Morgan N. Knull

Civil War Book Review

A new capitalist order

One Vast Hospital, David Madden

Civil War Book Review

One vast hospital

A Single Grand Victory: The First Campaign And Battle Of Manassas, Stacy D. Allen

Civil War Book Review

First blood

Comprehensive study investigates climactic battle

Comparative Proteome Analysis Of Brucella Melitensis Vaccine Strain Rev 1 And A Virulent Strain, 16m, Michel Eschenbrenner, Mary Ann Wagner, Troy A. Horn, Jo Ann Kraycer, Cesar V. Mujer, Sue Hagius, Philip Elzer, Vito G. Delvecchio

Faculty Publications

The genus Brucella consists of bacterial pathogens that cause brucellosis, a major zoonotic disease characterized by undulant fever and neurological disorders in humans. Among the different Brucella species, Brucella melitensis is considered the most virulent. Despite successful use in animals, the vaccine strains remain infectious for humans. To understand the mechanism of virulence in B. melitensis, the proteome of vaccine strain Rev 1 was analyzed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and compared to that of virulent strain 16M. The two strains were grown under identical laboratory conditions. Computer-assisted analysis of the two B. melitensis proteomes revealed proteins expressed in either 16M …

Late-Season Insect Pests Of Soybean In Louisiana: Preventive Management And Yield Enhancement (Bulletin #880), Melissa W. Willrich, David J. Boethel, B. Rogers Leonard, David C. Blouin

LSU AgCenter Bulletins

The velvetbean caterpillar and the soybean looper are important pests of soybeans in Louisiana. These late-season soybean insect pests create the need for the continuous development of insecticide programs that are cost effective, maintain profitable yields and conserve natural enemies.