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The Time-Course Of Vascular Adaptations Following Localized Short Term Exercise Training, Jason David Allen Jan 2001

The Time-Course Of Vascular Adaptations Following Localized Short Term Exercise Training, Jason David Allen

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This is a series of 3 experiments in the area of vasoreactivity. The first study investigated the stability and reproducibility of brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (BAFMD). Twenty-six healthy volunteers underwent 3 scans on 2 days, performed by 2 ultrasonographers, and analyzed by 2 readers. All subjects were tested between 7 and 11am after refraining from food and exercise. Average baseline diameter was 3.48±0.53mm, which increased to 3.71±0.57mm (6.58±4.15%) at peak dilation. ICCC's for days, testers and readers were 0.9188, 0.9394, and 0.8982 respectively. To detect a difference in vasoreactivity of 60% (two-tailed), e.g. 5% vasodilation versus 8% vasodilation, at 90% …

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The Association Of Food Cravings And Preferences With Food Intake, Corby Kyle Martin Jan 2001

The Association Of Food Cravings And Preferences With Food Intake, Corby Kyle Martin

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

An ubiquitous assumption about food intake behavior is that people eat the types of foods that they crave and prefer. Food preferences reflect hedonic ratings of the degree to which people like certain foods. The present study investigated the association of food cravings and hedonic ratings with food intake behavior, assessed in the laboratory with a Universal Eating Monitor (Kissileff, Klingsberg, & Van Itallie, 1980). The study sample consisted of 162 adults who completed the Food Craving Inventory (FCI; White, Whisenhunt, Williamson, Greenway, & Netemeyer, 2001), a questionnaire that measures craving, including cravings for specific types of foods (i.e., High …

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Trends And Disparities In Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke, And Other Cardiovascular Diseases In The United States: Findings Of The National Conference On Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Richard Cooper, Jeffrey Cutler, Patrice Desvigne-Nickens, Stephen P. Fortmann, Lawrence Friedman, Richard Havlik, Gary Hogelin, John Marler, Paul Mcgovern, Gregory Morosco, Lori Mosca, Thomas Pearson, Jeremiah Stamler, Daniel Stryer, Thomas Thom Dec 2000

Trends And Disparities In Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke, And Other Cardiovascular Diseases In The United States: Findings Of The National Conference On Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Richard Cooper, Jeffrey Cutler, Patrice Desvigne-Nickens, Stephen P. Fortmann, Lawrence Friedman, Richard Havlik, Gary Hogelin, John Marler, Paul Mcgovern, Gregory Morosco, Lori Mosca, Thomas Pearson, Jeremiah Stamler, Daniel Stryer, Thomas Thom

Faculty Publications

A workshop was held September 27 through 29, 1999, to address issues relating to national trends in mortality and morbidity from cardiovascular diseases; the apparent slowing of declines in mortality from cardiovascular diseases; levels and trends in risk factors for cardiovascular diseases; disparities in cardiovascular diseases by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and geography; trends in cardiovascular disease preventive and treatment services; and strategies for efforts to reduce cardiovascular diseases overall and to reduce disparities among subpopulations. The conference concluded that coronary heart disease mortality is still declining in the United States as a whole, although perhaps at a slower rate than …

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Making Classical And Quantum Canonical General Relativity Computable Through A Power Series Expansion In The Inverse Cosmological Constant, Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge Pullin Dec 2000

Making Classical And Quantum Canonical General Relativity Computable Through A Power Series Expansion In The Inverse Cosmological Constant, Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge Pullin

Faculty Publications

Casting ordinary general relativity as a perturbative theory in Λ-1 and starting with background theory in which Λ → ∞ allows one to explicitly compute nondegenerate physical quantum states and observables. The technique is applicable in the theory in general and also in mini-super-space models. In the general theory, the calculations are well defined and tractable, but quite involved. This opens up a program for the quantization of the gravitational field that is well defined computationally and allows contact with the physical observables of the theory, a key ingredient in the road to finding a theory with a semiclassical regime …

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Soft-X-Ray Fluorescence Study Of The Quasi-One-Dimensional Heisenberg Antiferromagnet Tetraphenylverdazyl, E. Z. Kurmaev, V. R. Galakhov, S. Shimada, T. Otsuka, K. Endo, S. Stadler, D. L. Ederer, A. Moewes, H. Schuerman, M. Neumann, S. Tomiyoshi, N. Azuma, M. Iwami Dec 2000

Soft-X-Ray Fluorescence Study Of The Quasi-One-Dimensional Heisenberg Antiferromagnet Tetraphenylverdazyl, E. Z. Kurmaev, V. R. Galakhov, S. Shimada, T. Otsuka, K. Endo, S. Stadler, D. L. Ederer, A. Moewes, H. Schuerman, M. Neumann, S. Tomiyoshi, N. Azuma, M. Iwami

Faculty Publications

Soft-x-ray fluorescence measurements have been performed on a single crystal of the organic antiferromagnet 2,4,6-triphenylverdazyl. Resonant and nonresonant C Kα and N Kα (2p → 1s transition) x-ray emission spectra (XES) were measured and compared with x-ray photoelectron valence band spectra and deMon density-functional theory calculations. It is shown that intramolecular interactions are much stronger than intermolecular ones and give the main contribution to the formation of C 2p density of states. We present evidence of a delocalization of unpaired N 2p electrons over the verdazyl ring. The excitation energy dependence of C Kα and N Kα XES observed below …

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Carbon Monoxide Production Is Not Enhanced By Nitrogenase Activity, P. Milligan, G. M. King Dec 2000

Carbon Monoxide Production Is Not Enhanced By Nitrogenase Activity, P. Milligan, G. M. King

Faculty Publications

A diverse group of nitrogen-fixing bacteria and two heme degraders were grown with and without fixed nitrogen sources under oxic and suboxic conditions, with and without addition of heme-containing compounds. Several of the strains produced carbon monoxide (CO) under one or more of these conditions, but nitrogenase activity did not stimulate rates of production relative to controls. Although nitrogenase can reduce CO2 to CO in vitro in the absence of N2, this process likely contributes minimally to CO production in soils under in situ conditions. In contrast, myoglobin or hematin addition under oxic conditions significantly stimulated CO production by the …

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A Study Of The Relationship Between Eggshell Color And Egg Specific Gravity Of The Eggs Of White Leghorns, Thomas Jerome Orgeron Dec 2000

A Study Of The Relationship Between Eggshell Color And Egg Specific Gravity Of The Eggs Of White Leghorns, Thomas Jerome Orgeron

Honors Capstones

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Consumer And Handler Reactions To Potential Country-Of-Origin Labeling Of Fresh Or Frozen Beef (Bulletin #878), Alvin Schupp, Jeffrey Gillespie Dec 2000

Consumer And Handler Reactions To Potential Country-Of-Origin Labeling Of Fresh Or Frozen Beef (Bulletin #878), Alvin Schupp, Jeffrey Gillespie

LSU AgCenter Bulletins

Imported fresh or frozen beef, along with other food products, is identified by country-of-origin as it enters the U.S. in bulk containers. This bulletin includes information and primary objectives on country-of-origin of fresh or frozen beef.

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Hole Distribution In (Sr, Ca, Y, La) 14cu24o41 Ladder Compounds Studied By X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy, N. Nücker, M. Merz, C. A. Kuntscher, S. Gerhold, S. Schuppler, R. Neudert, M. S. Golden, J. Fink, D. Schild, S. Stadler, V. Chakarian, J. Freeland, Y. U. Idzerda, K. Conder, M. Uehara, T. Nagata, J. Goto, J. Akimitsu, N. Motoyama, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, U. Ammerahl, A. Revcolevschi Dec 2000

Hole Distribution In (Sr, Ca, Y, La) 14cu24o41 Ladder Compounds Studied By X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy, N. Nücker, M. Merz, C. A. Kuntscher, S. Gerhold, S. Schuppler, R. Neudert, M. S. Golden, J. Fink, D. Schild, S. Stadler, V. Chakarian, J. Freeland, Y. U. Idzerda, K. Conder, M. Uehara, T. Nagata, J. Goto, J. Akimitsu, N. Motoyama, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, U. Ammerahl, A. Revcolevschi

Faculty Publications

The unoccupied electronic structure for the Sr14Cu24O41 family of two-leg ladder compounds was investigated for different partial substitutions of Sr2+ by Ca2+, leaving the nominal hole count constant, and by Y3+ or La3+, reducing the nominal hole count from its full value of 6 per formula unit. Using polarization-dependent x-ray absorption spectroscopy on single crystals, hole states on both the chain and ladder sites could be studied. While for intermediate hole counts all holes reside on O sites of the chains, a partial hole occupation on the ladder sites in orbitals oriented along the legs is observed for the fully …

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Land Use Impacts On Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide Consumption By Soils, G. M. King Dec 2000

Land Use Impacts On Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide Consumption By Soils, G. M. King

Faculty Publications

Seasonal analyses of in situ CO fluxes from forested and agricultural soils in Maine and Georgia, and more limited comparisons in Hawai'i indicated that agricultural land use consistently enhanced CO consumption. Soils at an agricultural site in Maine consumed approximately 1.9 g CO m-2 yr-1 while uptake in a nearby mixed forest was about 70% lower, 0.6 g CO m-2 yr-1. A similar trend was observed for sites in Georgia, where annual uptake by agricultural sites was approximately 1.0 g CO m-2 while net emission (about -0.5 g CO m-2) was observed for neighboring pine stands. Net CO fluxes in …

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Minimal And Contributing Sequence Determinants Of The Cis-Acting Locus Of Transfer (Clt) Of Streptomycete Plasmid Pij101 Occur Within An Intrinsically Curved Plasmid Region, M. J. Ducote, S. Prakash, G. S. Pettis Dec 2000

Minimal And Contributing Sequence Determinants Of The Cis-Acting Locus Of Transfer (Clt) Of Streptomycete Plasmid Pij101 Occur Within An Intrinsically Curved Plasmid Region, M. J. Ducote, S. Prakash, G. S. Pettis

Faculty Publications

Efficient interbacterial transfer of streptomycete plasmid pIJ101 requires the pIJ101 tra gene, as well as a cis-acting plasmid function known as clt. Here we show that the minimal pIJ101 clt locus consists of a sequence no greater than 54 bp in size that includes essential inverted-repeat and direct-repeat sequences and is located in close proximity to the 3′ end of the korB regulatory gene. Evidence that sequences extending beyond the minimal locus and into the korB open reading frame influence clt transfer function and demonstration that clt-korB sequences are intrinsically curved raise the possibility that higher-order structuring of DNA and …

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Shrewd Abraham: Historians Assay Lincoln's Public Image, Impact, And Martyrdom, Ronald D. Rietveld Dec 2000

Shrewd Abraham: Historians Assay Lincoln's Public Image, Impact, And Martyrdom, Ronald D. Rietveld

Civil War Book Review

The superb essays in Lincoln and His Contemporaries were developed from the Centennial Lincoln Symposium at Lincoln Memorial University in April 1997. Edited by Charles Hubbard, executive director of that institution's Abraham Lincoln Museum, the book apprises both Civil War scholar and buff ....

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Rough Riders: From Saddle To Battle, 'Texans Always Move'em, William J. Miller Dec 2000

Rough Riders: From Saddle To Battle, 'Texans Always Move'em, William J. Miller

Civil War Book Review

The regimental history, as a subgenre in American literature, has endured for well over 100 years. Eloquent writers and disciplined historians, rarely one and the same, have told the story of the men who have fought America's wars. There are a few superb unit histories and many more good ones, but t....

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Southern Cavalier, Steadfast Unionist: An Ohio Poet-General's Elegant Dispatches From The Field, John R. Sellers Dec 2000

Southern Cavalier, Steadfast Unionist: An Ohio Poet-General's Elegant Dispatches From The Field, John R. Sellers

Civil War Book Review

In her well-documented introduction to wartime letters of William Haines Lytle (1826-1863), editor Ruth C. Carter characterizes Ohio's poet-general as the epitome of the Southern cavalier -- vain, romantic, schooled in the social graces yet also pro-slavery, politically active, and a Douglas Democra....

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Songs Of War: The Battle Hymns Of The Confederacy, Meg Galante-Deangelis Dec 2000

Songs Of War: The Battle Hymns Of The Confederacy, Meg Galante-Deangelis

Civil War Book Review

You cannot have an army without music," Robert E. Lee once observed. Music was inextricably linked to every aspect of a soldier's life, whether he was involved in military duties or at leisure. It connected the soldier to his home and those at home to his victory, his complaints, and his travails. M....

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Storytelling And Fact-Collecting: An Interview With Author Webb Garrison, Katie L. Theriot Dec 2000

Storytelling And Fact-Collecting: An Interview With Author Webb Garrison, Katie L. Theriot

Civil War Book Review

Civil War Book Review (cwbr): What first attracted you to the Civil War? Webb Garrison (wg): All of my early years were spent in Covington, Georgia, 30 miles east of Atlanta. Though this town was not included in the March to the Sea, Garrard's cavalry burned bridges, gristmills....

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Appalachian Crossroads: Wartime Conflict And Divided Loyalties In The Southern Highlands, John David Smith Dec 2000

Appalachian Crossroads: Wartime Conflict And Divided Loyalties In The Southern Highlands, John David Smith

Civil War Book Review

This review is also available under the following title: Mountain Partisans: Guerrilla Warfare in the Southern Appalachians, 1861-1865 Finally, after years of relative neglect, scholars have "discovered" the Appalachian South during the Civil War era as an important, rich, and complex subje....

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Crossing The Potomac: Lee's Maryland Cavalrymen Defied Odds And Allegiances, Timothy Daiss Dec 2000

Crossing The Potomac: Lee's Maryland Cavalrymen Defied Odds And Allegiances, Timothy Daiss

Civil War Book Review

Robert J. Driver's First and Second Maryland Cavalry, C.S.A. provides an in-depth look at Maryland during the War, her divided loyalties, and the brave men and boys who left their native state to serve the South. Their departure from hearth and home was no mean feat. At great personal peril, ....

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Engineering Combat: The Battlefield As Showcase For New Technology, William S. Gross Dec 2000

Engineering Combat: The Battlefield As Showcase For New Technology, William S. Gross

Civil War Book Review

In Trial by Fire, Charles Ross presents an interesting book covering the applications of science and technology in the Civil War. Ross addresses the applications of existing technology to support combat forces and the applications of new technology to combat. While the book is not an exhausti....

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Limits Of Loyalty: A Rediscovered Diary Reveals Atlanta's Underground Unionists, Mark E. Neely Dec 2000

Limits Of Loyalty: A Rediscovered Diary Reveals Atlanta's Underground Unionists, Mark E. Neely

Civil War Book Review

Ever since the historical discovery of internal opposition to the Confederacy as described in Frank L. Owsley's 1925 book, State Rights in the Confederacy, the subject has fascinated scholars of Southern history even while proving curiously unmanageable. For all his genius in puncturing the L....

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Warfare And Word Play: A Postmodernist Rendering Of Civil War Memory And Literature, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Dec 2000

Warfare And Word Play: A Postmodernist Rendering Of Civil War Memory And Literature, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Civil War Book Review

In Disarming the Nation, Elizabeth Young seeks to rectify the prevailing vision of the Civil War as a male exercise in nation build-ing and to discredit the prevailing view of the literature about it as a "complemen-tary story of patrilineal self-generation." Deploring the "myth of origins" ....

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Innovative Sailing: A Definitive Biography Of The Confederacy's Naval Tactician, Gary D. Joiner Dec 2000

Innovative Sailing: A Definitive Biography Of The Confederacy's Naval Tactician, Gary D. Joiner

Civil War Book Review

Biographies of Civil War era naval officers are a scarce commodity and those of Southern officers are most rare. Craig L. Symonds has created a superb piece of writing in Confederate Admiral, his new volume on the life of Franklin Buchanan. The result is an impressive telling of the life of t....

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A Spatial Inquiry Of Infant Low Birthweight And Cancer Mortality In East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, Esra Qzdenerol Dec 2000

A Spatial Inquiry Of Infant Low Birthweight And Cancer Mortality In East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, Esra Qzdenerol

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Infant low birthweight rate in East Baton Rouge Parish is higher compared to the nation. Cancer is one of the most serious health problems in Louisiana. A few studies have indicated a relationship between the two health outcomes and their environment, but conclusions from these studies have not always been consistent. The spatial and temporal scales of the data and the methods used in these studies contribute to the inconsistent and uncertain results. The spatial patterns of infant low birthweight and cancer mortality in East Baton Rouge Parish from 1993 to 1996 and their relationships with environmental factors at three …

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C. Vann Woodward's Exceptionalism, Morgan Knull Dec 2000

C. Vann Woodward's Exceptionalism, Morgan Knull

Civil War Book Review

Although the Civil War is a topic that historian C. Vann Woodward directly addressed only in late life, with the publication of Mary Chesnut's Civil War (Yale University Press, $21.00, ISBN 0300029799), it had long proven formative to his historical consciousness. The grandson of an Arkansas....

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Abraham Lincoln, Christianity, And Civil Religion, Harold Holzer Dec 2000

Abraham Lincoln, Christianity, And Civil Religion, Harold Holzer

Civil War Book Review

Allen C. Guelzo's new book fills a distinct void in modern Lincoln literature: it is an authoritative and rewarding study of Lincoln's evolving relationship to God and to ideas. And while the character who emerges may be a less-than-great Emancipator, he is also a greater-than-ever Unionist, and a f....

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After Midnight: Buried Treasure And Social Squabbles In Georgia's Low Country, Winston Groom Dec 2000

After Midnight: Buried Treasure And Social Squabbles In Georgia's Low Country, Winston Groom

Civil War Book Review

Readers who expect a Civil War story in Delirium of the Brave will be disappointed. The Civil War is just a gimmick used by William C. Harris, Jr. to set up his saga of several Savannah, Georgia, families from Civil War times till the present. It begins with a prologue in which the "Grand Dra....

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Bugle Call: How A Mississippi Private Came To Be Buried In Rhode Island, Craig R. Scott Dec 2000

Bugle Call: How A Mississippi Private Came To Be Buried In Rhode Island, Craig R. Scott

Civil War Book Review

Samuel Postlethwaite, a private in the 21st Mississippi Infantry, served the Confeder-ate States from the beginning of the CivilWar until his severe wounding at Malvern Hill in 1862. Following the War he resided in Mississippi and eventually moved north to live with the Greenes, his relatives in Rho....

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Class Act: After Sumter, West Point's Cadets Divided, Mitchell Mcnaylor Dec 2000

Class Act: After Sumter, West Point's Cadets Divided, Mitchell Mcnaylor

Civil War Book Review

Following the members of a particular West Point class through their military careers is rapidly becoming a sub-genre in military history. Ralph Kirshner's The Class of 1861 is the latest addition to the field. In the same vein as such books as John C. Waugh's The Class of 1846, Kirshn....

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Conrad's Chapbook: Sacred Duty Drew An Artist Home From Old Rome', John M. Coski Dec 2000

Conrad's Chapbook: Sacred Duty Drew An Artist Home From Old Rome', John M. Coski

Civil War Book Review

A wartime memoir by Conrad Wise Chapman, the most important soldier-artist of the Confederacy, represents a potential bounty for historians. Unfortunately, the memoir covers only one year and does not include Chapman's service in Virginia or in South Carolina, where hedocumented with paintings Charl....

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Davis Do Right: A Laudatory Biography Depicts Jeff Davis From His Own Perspective', Steven E. Woodworth Dec 2000

Davis Do Right: A Laudatory Biography Depicts Jeff Davis From His Own Perspective', Steven E. Woodworth

Civil War Book Review

Why has Jefferson Davis been the subject of so many poor biographies? Over the century since his death, the Confederate president has somehow inspired what is probably the worst overall body of literature of any great figure in American history. With the happy exception of William E. Dodd's brief 19....

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