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Private Stanley, I Presume?': An Intrepid British Adventurer Soldiered For Both Sides, Alec Hasenson Dec 2001

William J. Cooper, Jr. Probes Jefferson Davis's Character, Charles L. Mccollum Dec 2001

Time-Varying Mortgage Prepayment Penalties, Austin Kelly, V. Carlos Slawson Dec 2001

Time-Varying Mortgage Prepayment Penalties, Austin Kelly, V. Carlos Slawson

Faculty Publications

Recent empirical findings reveal that prepayment decisions of commercial property owners are slower than predicted by the pure options-pricing model (OPM). Borrower decisions appearing slow, however, may be quite rational when prepayment penalties of a time-varying nature are incorporated into the OPM. This article uses a competing risks OPM, adjusted for each of four different categories of prepayment penalties, to analyze borrower prepayment behavior. We find the value of delaying prepayment is often higher for mortgages with declining-rate penalties than for mortgages with static-rate penalties, frequently requiring a substantially higher interest rate spread to trigger a refinance. Multifamily loan prepayment …

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The Valuation Effects Of Initiations And Terminations Of Joint Ventures, Tomas Mantecon Prieto Dec 2001

The Valuation Effects Of Initiations And Terminations Of Joint Ventures, Tomas Mantecon Prieto

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation examines the valuation effects of initiations and terminations of joint ventures formed by two partners.

The evidence indicates that there is an increase in value for both partners at joint venture initiations and that these gains are greater for small partners than for the large partners. The pattern of the gains to partners is consistent with the certification value of the inter-corporate relationship intrinsic to a joint venture. Moreover, an analysis of the operating performance after the initiation of joint ventures indicates that there is no significant improvement in operating performance of the partner firms relative to benchmark …

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A Meditation On American Politics': Can Lincoln's Political Ideals Provide Continuity With Our Past?, James D. Hardy Dec 2001

A Meditation On American Politics': Can Lincoln's Political Ideals Provide Continuity With Our Past?, James D. Hardy

Civil War Book Review

George Anastaplo began his career in an unusual fashion. He was a victim of the Illinois Bar Association's aversion to free expression in a First Amendment case, In re Anastaplo (366 U.S. 82 [1961]). He went on to an exceptionally distinguished academic career of sustained publication in law ....

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Between The York And The James: Nine Essays Put Peninsula And Seven Days Battles In Context, Kevin Levin Dec 2001

Between The York And The James: Nine Essays Put Peninsula And Seven Days Battles In Context, Kevin Levin

Civil War Book Review

This is the seventh installment in the University of North Carolina Press's Military Campaigns of the Civil War series. Though each volume is intended as a supplement to more traditional narratives, the series has been influential in providing new interpretations by challenging tired assumptions and....

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Command Performance: Actress Turned Plantation Mistress Decried Horrors Of Slavery, John Anthony Scott Dec 2001

Command Performance: Actress Turned Plantation Mistress Decried Horrors Of Slavery, John Anthony Scott

Civil War Book Review

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Burnside's Gamble: Fredericksburg Account 'Summarizes A Familiar Story', Robert K. Krick Dec 2001

Burnside's Gamble: Fredericksburg Account 'Summarizes A Familiar Story', Robert K. Krick

Civil War Book Review

Through most of the Civil War's campaigns in the Virginia Theater, Fredericksburg held a position near center stage. The opposing capital cities of Washington and Richmond lay equidistant on either side; wagon roads converged in town; a major river flowed past; and a railroad crossed the river in do....

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Cultural Aggression: Did Antebellum Northern Elites Dehumanize Southerners?, Ian Crowe Dec 2001

Cultural Aggression: Did Antebellum Northern Elites Dehumanize Southerners?, Ian Crowe

Civil War Book Review

North Over South is a study of the development of nationalist thought in the northern United States in the three decades preceding the Civil War's outbreak. Central to this study is Susan-Mary Grant's argument that "northern nationalism" increasingly monopolized the "search for an American na....

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End Of The Road: Sherman Was Tenacious, But Johnston Was The Better Negotiator, Peter S. Carmichael Dec 2001

End Of The Road: Sherman Was Tenacious, But Johnston Was The Better Negotiator, Peter S. Carmichael

Civil War Book Review

In the popular imagination, the image of Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant amicably discussing surrender terms in William McLean's parlor on April 9, 1865, symbolizes the end of the Civil War. The subsequent proceedings at Bennett Place, North Carolina, have often been an obscure footnote to the st....

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Contested Meanings: Gadfly' Historian Separates Civil War Fact From Myth, Lesley J. Gordon Dec 2001

Contested Meanings: Gadfly' Historian Separates Civil War Fact From Myth, Lesley J. Gordon

Civil War Book Review

Alan T. Nolan is probably best known for two books, written 30 years apart. The first, The Iron Brigade, was published in 1961 and hailed as a model unit history. Three decades later, Nolan wrote Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History, a much more controversial bo....

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Desperate Courage': Griswoldville's Lopsided Outcome Signaled The Confederacy's End, Albert Castel Dec 2001

Desperate Courage': Griswoldville's Lopsided Outcome Signaled The Confederacy's End, Albert Castel

Civil War Book Review

Judging by the total number of troops involved (no more than 4,000), the casualties for both sides (fewer than 700), and its strategic significance (none at all), the clash that took place near Griswoldville, Georgia, in November 1864 was not a battle, but merely a minor engagement. Yet Griswoldv....

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Freedom Riders: Complex Characters Present Black Cavalry Regiment's Plight, James G. Hollandsworth Jr. Dec 2001

Freedom Riders: Complex Characters Present Black Cavalry Regiment's Plight, James G. Hollandsworth Jr.

Civil War Book Review

It was not until 1943, when Bell Irving Wiley published The Life of Johnny Reb, that the common soldier in the Civil War gained his voice. Although veterans on both sides of the conflict published reminiscences after the War, their memoirs lacked the perspective that only a scholar such as Wi....

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From Sherman's Army, With Love: Illinois Soldier's Field Letters Address Things Back Home, Larry G. Ligget Dec 2001

From Sherman's Army, With Love: Illinois Soldier's Field Letters Address Things Back Home, Larry G. Ligget

Civil War Book Review

Colonel Smith D. Atkins loathed General Gordon Granger and sought to persuade William Rosecrans to attach Atkins's 92nd Illinois Infantry to active duty at the front. Relief came after Colonel John Wilder observed the regiment building a bridge across the Duck River, liked what he saw, and had it as....

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Into The Midst Of Chaos': Young Adult Title Recounts The Demise Of Fort Sumter, Mary Bahr Fritts Dec 2001

Into The Midst Of Chaos': Young Adult Title Recounts The Demise Of Fort Sumter, Mary Bahr Fritts

Civil War Book Review

Major Robert Anderson, USA, has achieved the unenviable position of opening civil war," shouted the headlines. The Charleston Courier interpreted Anderson's removal of federal troops in December 1860 from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter as hostile. His move, even though "under cloak of night," w....

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Scrapbook Spies: In Richmond, Two Women Choose Conscience Over Country, Meg Chorlian Dec 2001

Scrapbook Spies: In Richmond, Two Women Choose Conscience Over Country, Meg Chorlian

Civil War Book Review

In the fictional Dear Ellen Bee: A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies, friendship, intrigue, danger, and courage are woven together to flesh out a little-known story in history. The result is remarkable, and leaves the reader wishing more was known about the real lives of these two fascin....

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Tactical Errors: Union And Confederate Armies Were Hampered By Atlanta's Landscape, Philip L. Secrist Dec 2001

Tactical Errors: Union And Confederate Armies Were Hampered By Atlanta's Landscape, Philip L. Secrist

Civil War Book Review

In Atlanta 1864, Richard McMurry ably retraces the familiar scholarly analysis of Confederate command interplay during the Atlanta campaign, in which wartime field tent strategies collided with the long distance meddling of Richmond. Disappointingly, nothing fresh and new rises from McMurry's....

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Trouble In The Finger Lakes: Lincoln's Colorful Sleuth Abel Jones Investigates Civilian Unrest, Thomas Hill Dec 2001

Trouble In The Finger Lakes: Lincoln's Colorful Sleuth Abel Jones Investigates Civilian Unrest, Thomas Hill

Civil War Book Review

Shadows of Glory is Owen Parry's second Abel Jones historical suspense novel. The first mystery, Faded Coat of Blue, was set in Washington, D.C., at the very beginning of the conflict. It received very favorable reviews. The present installment takes place mostly in the Finger Lakes re....

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Unpopular Beliefs: Unionist Minister's History Of Wartime Arkansas Returns To Print, Lawrence Lee Hewitt Dec 2001

Unpopular Beliefs: Unionist Minister's History Of Wartime Arkansas Returns To Print, Lawrence Lee Hewitt

Civil War Book Review

Originally published in 1864, William Baxter's first-hand observations in and around Fayetteville, Arkansas, between 1860 and 1863 now have received a second reprinting in Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove. Though he meticulously describes the Confederate troops marching to and from the 1862 battle....

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War In Watercolor: Draftsman's Diaries And Drawings Record Battles, Andersonville, Ben L. Bassham Dec 2001

War In Watercolor: Draftsman's Diaries And Drawings Record Battles, Andersonville, Ben L. Bassham

Civil War Book Review

Among the soldier-artists who created a contemporary pictorial account of the Civil War, Robert Knox Sneden was almost certainly unique. With the publication of Eye of the Storm, an edited version of his illustrated wartime diary, Sneden should now be placed in the front ranks of Civil War a....

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War As Remembrance: Novel Reconstructs A Lovestruck Childhood Overwhelmed By Events, Randal W. Allred Dec 2001

War As Remembrance: Novel Reconstructs A Lovestruck Childhood Overwhelmed By Events, Randal W. Allred

Civil War Book Review

John Reed's first novel, A Still Small Voice, is told as a memoir of Alma Flynt, an orphan girl who is taken in by her Aunt Bettina in Kentucky, just prior to the War. Alma learns herb and root healing from her aunt and falls in love with John Warren Cleveland, the younger son of the neighbor....

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Feature Essay, David Madden Dec 2001

Feature Essay, David Madden

Civil War Book Review

Have you ever crawled inside a defunct forge and imagined working in that hell-hot, narrow space, glancing up at the sun struggling to penetrate the smoke hole, like the mouth of a cannon? I'll never forget standing briefly inside the Great Western Furnace on the Land Between the Rivers in Tennessee....

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Accumulation Of A Polyisoprene-Linked Amino Sugar In Polymyxin-Resistant Salmonella Typhimurium And Escherichia Coli: Structural Characterization And Transfer To Lipid A In The Periplasm, M. Stephen Trent, Anthony A. Ribeiro, William T. Doerrler, Shanhua Lin, Robert J. Cotter, Christian R.H. Raetz Nov 2001

Accumulation Of A Polyisoprene-Linked Amino Sugar In Polymyxin-Resistant Salmonella Typhimurium And Escherichia Coli: Structural Characterization And Transfer To Lipid A In The Periplasm, M. Stephen Trent, Anthony A. Ribeiro, William T. Doerrler, Shanhua Lin, Robert J. Cotter, Christian R.H. Raetz

Faculty Publications

Polymyxin-resistant mutants of Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium accumulate a novel minor lipid that can donate 4-amino-4-deoxy-L-arabinose units (L-Ara4N) to lipid A. We now report the purification of this lipid from a pss- pmrAC mutant of E. coli and assign its structure as undecaprenyl phosphate-α-L-Ara4N. Approximately 0.2 mg of homogeneous material was isolated from an 8-liter culture by solvent extraction, followed by chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, C18 reverse phase resin, and silicic acid. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization/time of flight mass spectrometry in the negative mode yielded a single species [M - H]- at m/z 977.5, consistent with undecaprenyl phosphate-α-L-Ara4N (Mr = …

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Faculty Senate Resolution 02-02, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Nov 2001

Faculty Senate Resolution 02-02, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Faculty Senate Resolution to request LSU faculty be able to review administrators of the VelocitySquared website; defeated, not adopted.

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High-Pressure Elastic Properties Of Major Materials Of Earth's Mantle From First Principles, Bijaya B. Karki, Lars Stixrude, Renata M. Wentzcovitch Nov 2001

High-Pressure Elastic Properties Of Major Materials Of Earth's Mantle From First Principles, Bijaya B. Karki, Lars Stixrude, Renata M. Wentzcovitch

Faculty Publications

The elasticity of materials is important for our understanding of processes ranging from brittle failure, to flexure, to the propagation of elastic waves. Seismologically revealed structure of the Earth's mantle, including the radial (one-dimensional) profile, lateral heterogeneity, and anisotropy are determined largely by the elasticity of the materials that make up this region. Despite its importance to geophysics, our knowledge of the elasticity of potentially relevant mineral phases at conditions typical of the Earth's mantle is still limited: Measuring the elastic constants at elevated pressure-temperature conditions in the laboratory remains a major challenge. Over the past several years, another approach …

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Long-Slit Observations Of Extended C Ii Λ1335 Emission Around V854 Centauri And Ry Sagittarii, G. C. Clayton, T. R. Ayres Oct 2001

Long-Slit Observations Of Extended C Ii Λ1335 Emission Around V854 Centauri And Ry Sagittarii, G. C. Clayton, T. R. Ayres

Faculty Publications

We have obtained long-slit far-ultraviolet (1150-1730 Å) spectra of the R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars V854 Cen and RY Sgr near maximum light and pulsational phase zero with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The far-UV spectrum of each star shows a photospheric continuum rising steeply toward longer wavelengths and a prominent emission feature at C II λ1335. RY Sgr displays a second, but fainter, emission attributed to Cl I λ1351 (which is radiatively fluoresced by C II λ1335), but Cl I is weak or absent in V854 Cen. Most surprisingly, the C II emission …

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Review Of The Healing Wound: Experiences And Reflections, Germany, 1938-2000, Michael F. Russo Oct 2001

Review Of The Healing Wound: Experiences And Reflections, Germany, 1938-2000, Michael F. Russo

Faculty Publications

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Deformations Of The Fermion Realization Of The Sp(4) Algebra And Its Subalgebras, K. D. Sviratcheva, A. I. Georgieva, V. G. Gueorguiev, J. P. Draayer, M. I. Ivanov Oct 2001

Deformations Of The Fermion Realization Of The Sp(4) Algebra And Its Subalgebras, K. D. Sviratcheva, A. I. Georgieva, V. G. Gueorguiev, J. P. Draayer, M. I. Ivanov

Faculty Publications

With a view towards future applications in nuclear physics, the fermion realization of the compact symplectic sp(4) algebra and its q-deformed versions are investigated. Three important reduction chains of the sp(4) algebra are explored in both the classical and deformed cases. The deformed realizations are based on distinct deformations of the fermion creation and annihilation operators. For the primary reduction, the su(2) substructure can be interpreted as either the spin, isospin or angular momentum algebra, whereas for the other two reductions su(2) can be associated with pairing between fermions of the same type or pairing between two distinct fermion types. …

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Origin Of Lateral Variation Of Seismic Wave Velocities And Density In The Deep Mantle, Shun Ichiro Karato, Bijaya B. Karki Oct 2001

Origin Of Lateral Variation Of Seismic Wave Velocities And Density In The Deep Mantle, Shun Ichiro Karato, Bijaya B. Karki

Faculty Publications

Strong constraints can be placed on the origin of heterogeneity of seismic wave velocities and density if the observed ratios of various parameters are compared with mineral physics predictions. They include the shear to compressional wave velocity heterogeneity ratio, R ≡ δ log V / δ log V , the bulk sound to shear wave velocity heterogeneity ratio, R ≡ δ log V / δ log V , and the density to velocity heterogeneity ratio, R ≡ δ log ρ / δ log V . Using mineral physics considerations, we calculate these ratios in the lower mantle corresponding to the …

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Readout And Control Of A Power-Recycled Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Antenna, Peter Fritschel, Rolf Bork, Gabriela González, Nergis Mavalvala, Dale Ouimette, Haisheng Rong, Daniel Sigg, Michael Zucker Oct 2001

Readout And Control Of A Power-Recycled Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Antenna, Peter Fritschel, Rolf Bork, Gabriela González, Nergis Mavalvala, Dale Ouimette, Haisheng Rong, Daniel Sigg, Michael Zucker

Faculty Publications

Interferometric gravitational-wave antennas are based on Michelson interferometers whose sensitivity to small differential length changes has been enhanced by the addition of multiple coupled optical resonators. The use of optical cavities is essential for reaching the required sensitivity but sets challenges for the control system, which must maintain the cavities near resonance. The goal for the strain sensitivity of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is 10-21 rms, integrated over a 100-Hz bandwidth centered at 150 Hz. We present the major design features of the LIGO length and frequency sensing and control system, which will hold the differential length to …

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