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First Hurrah: Child Patriots Learned Their Education In The Field, George Mcnamara

Civil War Book Review

In Callow Brave and True, Jay S. Hoar brings welcome relief to anyone who ever has struggled to substantiate reports about a particular great-great relative who was thought to be a Civil War drummer boy or a certain local burial site that allegedly contains the remains of a Civil War hero. Th....

Forever Gallant: Cd-Rom And Print-On-Demand Technology Bring Back A Classic, Albert A. Nofi

Civil War Book Review

These chapters from the Comte de Paris's multi-volume History of the Civil War in America, originally published as a one-volume work in 1886, collected here as The Battle of Gettysburg, provide a readable, generally clear treatment of the battle, with some surprising insights, such as ....

Historical Actors: A Tour Of War Narrated For Children And Teachers, Carolyn P. Yoder

Civil War Book Review

For children who really want to know what it felt like to take an active role in the past, The Civil War for Kids is it! The cast of characters to choose from is large. Sol-diers, nurses, officers, reporters, artists, doctors, spies, presidents, wives, and children play key role....

Only Connect: Railroad Development And Race In The Confederate Corridor, Loren Schweninger

Civil War Book Review

The scholarship on the middle period of the 19th century in the South has prolifer-ated to such an extent over the past few decades, that it seems almost impossible to offer a new and fresh interpretation of events, whether they are political, social, economic, or racial. Scott Reynolds Nelson has d....

The Arousal Of Passions: Mob Rhetoric As An Antebellum Political Device, Andrew Burstein

Civil War Book Review

The Dominion of Voice is an intelligent study in the character of democratic politics before the Civil War, challenging the ideal that reasoned argument is the healthiest means to resolve political conflict. The underlying issue in the book is anti-slavery. Instead of viewing passion as an un....

Uncharted Terrain: Maps Created For Military Purposes Also Possess Historical, 'Sthetic Richness, William E. Little

Civil War Book Review

During the Civil War, a map of good quality had the potential to make the difference between victory and defeat on the battlefield. Earl B. McElfresh's Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War brings together the War's most notable, interesting, and beautiful maps, some of which have never before ....

Feature Essay, David Madden

Civil War Book Review

Here comes one Civil War novel after another - and you wish something new would come along. Well, here it is: The Story of Don Miff, As Told by His Friend, John Bouche Whacker, A Symphony of Life, "edited" by Virginius Dabney. The title makes you think you know what you're in for but what you....

Annotations, Cwbr_Editor

Civil War Book Review

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Luciano Berio's Music Theatre: Az/One Musicale, Claudine Canzonire Simonson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Luciano Berio refers to his large-scale works for music theatre not as operas, but as azioni musicali, or musical actions. Berio was able to develop the idea that a large-scale work for music theatre should follow an episodic narrative and allow the music to direct the action of the dramaturgy because of the following influences: his collaborations with Cathy Berberian, Edoardo Sanguineti, Umberto Eco, and Italo Calvino; Brecht's epic theatre; Wagner's music drama; and electronic music. Berio was able to successfully realize his musical action concept with Un re in ascolto, or The King Listens (1984), his first …

Faculty Senate Resolution 01-04, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Faculty Senate Resolution to develop procedures to remove tenure from administrators, adopted on November 30, 2000.

Erratum: Magnetoresistance From Quantum Interference Effects In Ferromagnets (Nature (2000) 404 (581-584)), N. Manyala, Y. Sidis, J. F. Ditusa, G. Aeppli, D. P. Young, Z. Fisk

Faculty Publications

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Interactions Of Tillage And Soil Depth On Fluometuron Degradation In A Dundee Silt Loam Soil, R. M. Zablotowicz, M. A. Locke, L. A. Gaston, C. T. Bryson

Faculty Publications

Fluometuron (N,N-dimethyl-N'-[3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]urea) is the most widely used soil applied herbicide in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) production in the Southeastern United States. Thus, there is a need to understand the persistence of this herbicide under various crop management systems in regards to both herbicide efficiency and environmental fate. The effects of long-term no-tillage practices on fluometuron degradation were studied in a Dundee silt loam under laboratory conditions. Soil was collected at four depths (0-2, 2-5, 5-10, and 10-25 cm) from field plots following 11 years of continuous no-tillage (NT) or conventional tillage (CT). Organic carbon content, microbial biomass, and fluorescein diacetate (FDA)-hydrolytic …

Kinetic Characterization Of His-Tagged Cp47 Photosystem Ii In Synechocystis Sp. Pcc6803, Zhao Liang Li, Terry M. Bricker, Robert Burnap

Faculty Publications

Recently, construction of strains of Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 having a His6 extension (His-tag) of the carboxyl terminus of the CP47 protein has been reported (T.M. Bricker et al, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1409 (1998) 50; M.J. Reifler et al., in: Garab, Pusztai (Eds.) Proc. XIth International Congress on Photosynthesis, 1998). While these initial reports suggest a minimal impact of the His-tag upon Photosystem (PS) II function, a more thorough analysis of the kinetic properties of the modified complex is essential. This communication reports on a more detailed kinetic analysis to assess possible perturbations of PS II due to the genetic addition …

Fermi Surface Properties Of Low-Concentration Cexla1-Xb6: De Haas - Van Alphen, A. A. Teklu, R. G. Goodrich, N. Harrison, D. Hall, Z. Fisk, D. Young

Faculty Publications

The de Haas - Van Alphen (dHvA) effect is used to study angular-dependent extremal areas of the Fermi surfaces and effective masses of CexLa1-xB6 alloys for x between 0 and 0.05. The dHvA signals from these alloys are observed to change from that arising from the normal two-spin metal, LaB6, to a single-spin sheet signal at x = 0.05.

Eosinophil Major Basic Protein-1 Does Not Contribute To Allergen-Induced Airway Pathologies In Mouse Models Of Asthma, K. L. Denzler, S. C. Farmer, J. R. Crosby, M. Borchers, G. Cieslewicz, K. A. Larson, S. Cormier-Regard, N. A. Lee, J. J. Lee

Faculty Publications

The relationship between eosinophils and the development of Ag-induced pulmonary pathologies, including airway hyper-responsiveness, was investigated using mice deficient for the secondary granule component, major basic protein-1 (mMBP-1). The loss of mMBP-1 had no effect on OVA-induced airway histopathologies or inflammatory cell recruitment. Lung function measurements of knockout mice demonstrated a generalized hyporeactivity to methacholine-induced airflow changes (relative to wild type); however, this baseline phenotype was observable only with methacholine; no relative airflow changes were observed in response to another nonspecific stimulus (serotonin). Moreover, OVA sensitization/aerosol challenge of wild-type and mMBP-1(-/-) mice resulted in identical dose-response changes to either methacholine …

Internet Regulations And The First Amendment, Shweta Gera

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Compensation And Benefits In The E-World: Paying For It Talent, Alice Mondello

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Potential Gene Conversion And Source Genes For Recently Integrated Alu Elements, Astrid M. Roy, Marion L. Carroll, Son V. Nguyen, Abdel Halim Salem, Michael Oldridge, Andrew O.M. Wilkie, Mark A. Batzer, Prescott L. Deininger

Faculty Publications

Alu elements comprise >10% of the human genome. We have used a computational biology approach to analyze the human genomic DNA sequence databases to determine the impact of gene conversion on the sequence diversity of recently integrated Alu elements and to identify Alu elements that were potentially retroposition competent. We analyzed 269 Alu Ya5 elements and identified 23 members of a new Alu subfamily termed Ya5a2 with an estimated copy number of 35 members, including the de novo Alu insertion in the NFI gene. Our analysis of Alu elements containing one to four (Ya1-Ya4) of the Ya5 subfamily-specific mutations suggests …

Reading Between The Lines: Human Genomic Variation Induced By Line-1 Retrotransposition, Fang Miin Sheen, Stephen T. Sherry, Gregory M. Risch, Myles Robichaux, Ivane Nasidze, Mark Stoneking, Mark A. Batzer, Gary D. Swergold

Faculty Publications

The insertion of mobile elements into the genome represents a new class of genetic markers for the study of human evolution. Long interspersed elements (LINEs) have amplified to a copy number of about 100,000 over the last 100 million years of mammalian evolution and comprise ~15% of the human genome. The majority of LINE-1 (L1) elements within the human genome are 5' truncated copies of a few active L1 elements that are capable of retrotransposition. Some of the young L1 elements have inserted into the human genome so recently that populations are polymorphic for the presence of an L1 element …

The Large Cosmological Constant Approximation To Classical And Quantum Gravity: Model Examples, Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge Pullin

Faculty Publications

We have recently introduced an approach for studying perturbatively classical and quantum canonical general relativity. The perturbative technique appears to preserve many of the attractive features of the non-perturbative quantization approach based on Ashtekar's new variables and spin networks. With this approach one can find perturbatively classical observables (quantities that have vanishing Poisson brackets with the constraints) and quantum states (states that are annihilated by the quantum constraints). The relative ease with which the technique appears to deal with these traditionally hard problems opens up several questions concerning how relevant the results produced can possibly be. Among the questions is …

Suspensions Thermal Noise In The Ligo Gravitational Wave Detector, Gabriela González

Faculty Publications

We present a calculation of the maximum sensitivity achievable by the LIGO gravitational wave detector in construction, due to limiting thermal noise of its suspensions. We present a method to calculate thermal noise that allows the prediction of the suspension thermal noise in all of its six degrees of freedom, from the energy dissipation due to the elasticity of the suspension wires. We show how this approach encompasses and explains previous ways to approximate the thermal noise limit in gravitational wave detectors. We show how this approach can be extended to more complicated suspensions to be used in future LIGO …

Faculty Senate Resolution 01-03, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Faculty Senate Resolution to increase LSU25+ to 30 credit hours, adopted on November 3, 2000.

A Comparative Analysis Of The Evolution Of The Three Major U.S. Meat Industries: With Implications For The Future Direction Of The U.S Beef Industry (Bulletin #877), Jeffrey Gillespie, Christopher Davis, Aydin Basarir, Alvin Schupp

LSU AgCenter Bulletins

The objectives of this study are to: (1) use an appropriate model of structural change in agricultural industries to critically examine the evolutionary paths of the three major U.S. meat industries to date, and to (2) provide insight as to the future challenges faced by the beef industry in progressing toward a more efficient consumer-oriented industry.

The Breeding Ecology Of White-Faced Ibis In The Lower Carson River Basin, Nevada, Eric Patrick Kelchlin

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The Great Basin White-faced Ibis (Plegadis chihi) population is recognized as a Species of Management because of its small population size, limited number of traditional breeding sites, and vulnerability to habitat loss. The ability to predict future population trends and develop wetland management strategies is limited because many aspects of their breeding ecology and population dynamics are unknown. 1 examined White-faced Ibis nesting ecology and breeding habitat selection at the Lower Carson River Basin, Nevada, from 1995-1997, and the relationship between the local surface water conditions and trends in the number of breeding pairs from 1970-1997 on a local and …

Polymeric Substances And Biofilms As Biomarkers In Terrestrial Materials: Implications For Extraterrestrial Samples, Frances Westall, Andrew Steele, Jan Toporski, Maud Walsh, Carlton Allen, Sean Guidry, David Mckay, Everett Gibson, Henry Chafetz

Faculty Publications

Organic polymeric substances are a fundamental component of microbial biofilms. Microorganisms, especially bacteria, secrete extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) to form slime layers in which they reproduce. In the sedimentary environment, biofilms commonly contain the products of degraded bacteria as well as allochthonous and autochthonous mineral components. They are complex structures which serve as protection for the colonies of microorganisms living in them and also act as nutrient traps. Biofilms are almost ubiquitous wherever there is an interface and moisture (liquid/liquid, liquid/solid, liquid/gas, solid/gas). In sedimentary rocks they are commonly recognized as stromatolites. We also discuss the distinction between bacterial biofilms …

Faculty Senate Resolution 01-02, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Faculty Senate Resolution to reinstate August commencement, adopted on October 2, 2000.

Lumières, Fall 2000, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

Friends of the LSU Libraries

The bi-annual newsletters from the Friends of the Library contain information about upcoming and recent events, descriptions of new collections, a list of members, and occasional obituaries, which inform members of the news and needs of the LSU Libraries.

F00rs Sgb No. 4 (Bio Engr), Griggs

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To appropriate one thousand two hundred sixty-five dollars and seventeen cents ($1,265.17) to the LSU Department of Biological Engineering Senior Design Project Team to help defray the cost of purchasing hardware and chemicals to be used in the fabrication and testing of a prototype for a student-designed biological reactor that will produce xylitol.

F00rs Sgb No. 5 (Army Scotchguard), Cooper

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To appropriate four hundred dollars ($400.00) to Army ScotchGuard providing for banners to be placed on the LSU campus for the ‘2000 Jail-n-Bail’ fundraiser for the March of Dimes.

F00rs Sgb No. 6 (Election Code), Grantham, Wattigny, Ducote

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To amend Article III, Section 8, Subsection A of the LSU A&M Student Government Election Code as it pertains to absentee voting.