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Louisiana Agriculture Spring, 2000, Lsu Agcenter Apr 2000

Louisiana Agriculture Spring, 2000, Lsu Agcenter

Louisiana Agriculture

No abstract provided.


The Contribution Of The Pet Turtle Industry To The Louisiana Economy (Research Report #108), David W. Hughes Apr 2000

The Contribution Of The Pet Turtle Industry To The Louisiana Economy (Research Report #108), David W. Hughes

LSU AgCenter Research Reports

This study examined the impact of the Louisiana pet turtle industry on the state economy by using a modified version of an input-output (I-O) model constructed with the Impact Analysis Planning (IMPLAN) model building system.


Adoption Of Best Management Practices By Louisiana Rice Producers(Research Report# 107), Michael E. Salassi, Marisa L. Zansler Apr 2000

Adoption Of Best Management Practices By Louisiana Rice Producers(Research Report# 107), Michael E. Salassi, Marisa L. Zansler

LSU AgCenter Research Reports

The results presented in this publication indicate that efforts to educate producers about nonpoint source pollution and recommended practices to minimize it can be effective in encouraging producers to adopt best management practices, whether those educational efforts are through dissemination of information at producer meetings or other outlets.


Alcohol Intake And Mortality: Findings From The National Health Interview Surveys (1988 And 1990), Youlian Liao, Daniel L. Mcgee, Guichan Cao, Richard S. Cooper Apr 2000

Alcohol Intake And Mortality: Findings From The National Health Interview Surveys (1988 And 1990), Youlian Liao, Daniel L. Mcgee, Guichan Cao, Richard S. Cooper

Faculty Publications

The authors used prospective data from two supplemental studies of the National Health Interview Survey, the 1988 Alcohol Supplement and the 1990 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Supplement, to examine the relation between alcohol intake and mortality. Their study included 17,821 men and 25,874 women aged 40 years or older at baseline; during an average of 6 years of follow-up, 5,540 deaths occurred. The alcohol-mortality relation was U-shaped for men and J-shaped for women. On the basis of categorical analyses adjusted for age, race, smoking, and baseline diseases, men who drank 2 drinks per day had a significantly lower risk …


Tolkien And Lewis Rejuvenate The Quest Motif In Fantasy Literature, Claire Lucile Schlecht Apr 2000

Tolkien And Lewis Rejuvenate The Quest Motif In Fantasy Literature, Claire Lucile Schlecht

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Design Of A Fluoride Removal Water Treatment System For A Guatemalan Community: An Exercise In Global Engineering, Jason R. El Koubi Apr 2000

Design Of A Fluoride Removal Water Treatment System For A Guatemalan Community: An Exercise In Global Engineering, Jason R. El Koubi

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Glycoprotein B Of Human Herpesvirus 8 Is A Component Of The Virion In A Cleaved Form Composed Of Amino- And Carboxyl-Terminal Fragments, Abolghasem Baghian, Micah Luftig, Jodi B. Black, Yuan Xiang Meng, Chou Pong Pau, Thomas Voss, Philip E. Pellett, Konstantin G. Kousoulas Mar 2000

Glycoprotein B Of Human Herpesvirus 8 Is A Component Of The Virion In A Cleaved Form Composed Of Amino- And Carboxyl-Terminal Fragments, Abolghasem Baghian, Micah Luftig, Jodi B. Black, Yuan Xiang Meng, Chou Pong Pau, Thomas Voss, Philip E. Pellett, Konstantin G. Kousoulas

Faculty Publications

Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) or Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is the only known human member of the Rhadinovirus genus of the gammaherpesvirus subfamily. Antibodies against peptides representing portions of the amino-and carboxyl-termini of HHV-8 gB were produced and used to detect gB expression in Vero cells transfected with the gB gene, in the HHV- 8-harboring cell line, BCBL-1, and in purified virions. Expression of gB was detected in approximately 3% of uninduced BCBL-1 cells, while up to 30% of the cells expressed gB after 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) induction of virus replication. Indirect immunofluorescence assays and confocal microscopy showed that gB was …


Strong Species Dependence Of High Order Photoelectron Production In Alkali Metal Atoms, M. B. Gaarde, K. J. Schafer, K. C. Kulander, B. Sheehy, Dalwoo Kim, L. F. Dimauro Mar 2000

Strong Species Dependence Of High Order Photoelectron Production In Alkali Metal Atoms, M. B. Gaarde, K. J. Schafer, K. C. Kulander, B. Sheehy, Dalwoo Kim, L. F. Dimauro

Faculty Publications

We present a theoretical and experimental study of the production of very high order photoelectrons from alkali metal atoms interacting with intense, midinfrared radiation. The strength of this process shows an unexpectedly strong species dependence. We find that this dependence can be explained via the difference in the cross section for electron-ion scattering from the different atoms. This allows us to directly relate the high energy portion of the photoelectron spectrum to specific features of the electron-ion potential. © 2000 The American Physical Society.


Effects Of Prolonged Soil Drought On Ch4 Oxidation In A Temperate Spruce Forest, W. Borken, R. Brumme, Y. J. Xu Mar 2000

Effects Of Prolonged Soil Drought On Ch4 Oxidation In A Temperate Spruce Forest, W. Borken, R. Brumme, Y. J. Xu

Faculty Publications

Our objective was to determine potential impacts of changes in rainfall amount and distribution on soil CH4 oxidation in a temperate forest ecosystem. We constructed a roof below the canopy of a 65-year-old Norway spruce forest (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) and simulated two climate change scenarios: (1) an extensively prolonged summer drought of 172 days followed by a rewetting period of 19 days in 1993 and (2) a less intensive summer drought of 108 days followed by a rewetting period of 33 days in 1994. CH4 oxidation, soil matric potential, and soil temperature were measured hourly to daily over a …


Can Light Echoes Account For The Slow Decay Of Type Iin Supernovae?, Bruce Roscherr, Bradley E. Schaefer Mar 2000

Can Light Echoes Account For The Slow Decay Of Type Iin Supernovae?, Bruce Roscherr, Bradley E. Schaefer

Faculty Publications

The spectra of Type Un supernovae indicate the presence of a preexisting slow, dense circumstellar wind (CSW). If the CSW extends sufficiently far from the progenitor star, then dust formation should occur in the wind. The light from the supernova explosion will scatter off this dust and produce a light echo. Continuum emission seen after the peak will have contributions from both this echo as well as from the shock of the ejecta colliding with the CSW, with a fundamental question of which source dominates the continuum. We calculate the brightness of the light echo as a function of time …


Faculty Senate Resolution 00-09, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Mar 2000

Faculty Senate Resolution 00-09, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Faculty Senate Resolution to designate March as career month by the LSU Faculty Senate, adopted on March 9, 2000.


Faculty Senate Resolution 00-10, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Mar 2000

Faculty Senate Resolution 00-10, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Faculty Senate Resolution on new admission standards for Fall-2002, adopted on March 9, 2000.


Political And Religious Justifications For The Dutch Revolt: An Examination Of Key Pamphlets, Audrey Anne Stevenson Mar 2000

Political And Religious Justifications For The Dutch Revolt: An Examination Of Key Pamphlets, Audrey Anne Stevenson

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Aflatoxin Production In Corn By Aspergillus Flavus Relative To Inoculation, Planting Date, And Harvest Moisture In Louisiana (Research Report #102), K. M. Tubajika, H. J. Mascagni Jr., K. E. Damann, J. S. Russin Mar 2000

Aflatoxin Production In Corn By Aspergillus Flavus Relative To Inoculation, Planting Date, And Harvest Moisture In Louisiana (Research Report #102), K. M. Tubajika, H. J. Mascagni Jr., K. E. Damann, J. S. Russin

LSU AgCenter Research Reports

Contamination of food and feed grains by aflatoxins is a problem throughout the world. Corn produced in the southeastern United States has higher levels of aflatoxin than corn produced in the Corn Belt of the Midwest.


Grant At Face Value: An Officer's Odyssey From West Point To Appomattox, Geoffrey Perret Mar 2000

Grant At Face Value: An Officer's Odyssey From West Point To Appomattox, Geoffrey Perret

Civil War Book Review

These are good times for Ulysses S. Grant, whose reputation took a beating a generation ago at the hands of William S. McFeely. My own, admittedly admiring, biography was published in 1997, the first volume of Brooks D. Simpson's book has finally appeared, and yet another Grant bio-graphy, by Jean S....


Rediscovering Civil War Classics, David Madden Mar 2000

Rediscovering Civil War Classics, David Madden

Civil War Book Review

Ironically, the still-read works of Ellen Glasgow do not generally cry out for rediscovery, while Upton Sin-clair, one of the best-known American novelists throughout the world and author of The Jungle, wrote a novel that has had to cry out for rediscovery. The University of Alabama Press hea....


Sons Of Liberty: A Tale Of One Family's Intersection With History, James Mac Donald Mar 2000

Sons Of Liberty: A Tale Of One Family's Intersection With History, James Mac Donald

Civil War Book Review

Among the more prominent family names in American history are Adams, Lee, and Roosevelt. Aside from the notice given to 19th century expansionist president James K. Polk, the surname Polk has failed to receive comparable historical attention. Historian William R. Polk is out to end this oversight in....


The Masterless: Joining Bushwhackers, A Teenage Boy Abandons His Humanity, Morgan N. Knull Mar 2000

The Masterless: Joining Bushwhackers, A Teenage Boy Abandons His Humanity, Morgan N. Knull

Civil War Book Review

Observing Adolf Eichmann in a Jerusalem courtroom, Hannah Arendt struggled to give expression to the magnitude of evil perpetrated by the undistinguished ex-Nazi bureaucrat sitting in the defendant's box, charged with calmly overseeing the extermination of several million humans. "The banality of ev....


Deep Wounds: Scarred By Racism And War Injury, A Black Veteran Condemns His Race, Gaines M. Foster Mar 2000

Deep Wounds: Scarred By Racism And War Injury, A Black Veteran Condemns His Race, Gaines M. Foster

Civil War Book Review

In early 1865, the 5th United States Colored Troops, fresh from victory at Fort Fisher, moved north toward Wilmington, North Carolina, and attacked a Confederate force blocking its path. During the battle, a musket ball tore into the arm of Sergeant William Hannibal Thomas. The shot ended Thomas's c....


Buying And Selling The Civil War, Morgan Knull Mar 2000

Buying And Selling The Civil War, Morgan Knull

Civil War Book Review

In a paper delivered in April at the 30th annual conference of the Popular Cultural Association, David Madden declared pop culture the medium through which the Civil War is made present in our own day. "Just as the simple visual image of the Confederate battle flag can focus feelings and attitudes o....


Hurricane Of Bullets: Social Strife And Unorthodox Officers Bring The War To Missouri, R. Scott Price Mar 2000

Hurricane Of Bullets: Social Strife And Unorthodox Officers Bring The War To Missouri, R. Scott Price

Civil War Book Review

Once in a great while the publication of a book represents a passing of the torch from one generation of scholars to the next. Such is the case with William Garrett Piston's and Richard W. Hatcher's Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It. It is evident th....


Close Limit Of Grazing Black Hole Collisions: Non-Spinning Holes, Gaurav Khanna, Reinaldo Gleiser, Richard Price, Jorge Pullin Mar 2000

Close Limit Of Grazing Black Hole Collisions: Non-Spinning Holes, Gaurav Khanna, Reinaldo Gleiser, Richard Price, Jorge Pullin

Faculty Publications

Using approximate techniques we study the final moments of the collision of two (individually non-spinnning) black holes which inspiral into each other. The approximation is based on treating the whole spacetime as a single distorted black hole. We obtain estimates for the radiated energy, angular momentum and waveforms for the gravitational waves produced in such a collision. The results can be of interest for analysing the data that will be forthcoming from gravitational wave interferometric detectors, like the LIGO, GEO, LISA, VIRGO and TAMA projects.


Some Generalizations Of The Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Equations, Michael M. Tom Mar 2000

Some Generalizations Of The Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Equations, Michael M. Tom

Faculty Publications

The question of globalization of solutions of the Cauchy problem for some generalizations of Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equations of the form (ut + upux -Dαxux)x + εuyy = 0, where Dx = (- ∂2x)1/2 and ε = ± 1 is examined. It is shown that for ε = -1 and α ≥ 2, a global estimate on solutions can be derived for large initial data provided that p < 4α/4 + α. A consequence of this is that if a is large enough, the local solution in Hs(ℝ2) can be globally continued. © 2000 Academic Press.


'Unrelenting Suspense': An Interview With John Jakes, Chronicler Of The American Epic, Katie L. Theriot Mar 2000

'Unrelenting Suspense': An Interview With John Jakes, Chronicler Of The American Epic, Katie L. Theriot

Civil War Book Review

Civil War Book Review (cwbr): You have achieved prominence as a writer of historical fiction. Do you see your role as primarily literary or historical -- or both? John Jakes (jj): From the time I made my first sale (a 1500-word short story in 1950), writing an entertaining narr....


A View From The Ridge: Rediscovering One Union Regiment's Gettysburg Service, Jonathan A. Noyalas Mar 2000

A View From The Ridge: Rediscovering One Union Regiment's Gettysburg Service, Jonathan A. Noyalas

Civil War Book Review

For a regimental history to have an impact on historical literature the author must convey the wider range of events surrounding a battle or campaign. Placing a regiment in proper historical context, describing actions of other units involved, and defining the general military situation are essentia....


Cavalier Justice: Southern Political Solidarity Quashed Dissent, James D. Hardy Mar 2000

Cavalier Justice: Southern Political Solidarity Quashed Dissent, James D. Hardy

Civil War Book Review

In 1978, the historian Richard Cobb published a short book, entitled Death in Paris, about the 400 or so Parisian suicides who found their way to the municipal morgue during the tumultuous years of the Jacobins and the Directory. Ostensibly local history, Cobb's book shows the continuity of b....


Counteroffensive In Kentucky: A Dramatic Narrative Of Opposing Armies In The, Benjamin Franklin Cooling Mar 2000

Counteroffensive In Kentucky: A Dramatic Narrative Of Opposing Armies In The, Benjamin Franklin Cooling

Civil War Book Review

A fourth volume in the University of Nebraska's "Great Campaigns of the Civil War" series, Banners to the Breeze examines three of the major campaigns associated with the 1862 Confederate resurgence in the upper heartland of Kentucky and Tennessee. Following devastating defeat at the hands of....


Decoding The Past: Reference Work Explains Civil War Vocabulary And Practices, Edward Steers Mar 2000

Decoding The Past: Reference Work Explains Civil War Vocabulary And Practices, Edward Steers

Civil War Book Review

Everyday Life During the Civil War is one of a series of guides published by Writer's Digest Books as a resource primarily for writers of fiction. The book consists of 10 chapters and four appendices that include such topics as wages, currency, food, games, language, technology, and arms and ....


Fleeting Fortunes, Deserted Ranks: What Factors Influenced Georgian Troop Desertion?, Kevin Levin Mar 2000

Fleeting Fortunes, Deserted Ranks: What Factors Influenced Georgian Troop Desertion?, Kevin Levin

Civil War Book Review

Desertion is one of the least understood topics in Civil War studies, though an adequate account of it has implications for several areas of historical research, including life on the home front, morale, and nationalism. The current volume is an important first step in addressing the evolution of de....


Fusillade Of Words: Secessionists Spoke Of Nature, Slavery, And Chivalry, Michael Montgomery Mar 2000

Fusillade Of Words: Secessionists Spoke Of Nature, Slavery, And Chivalry, Michael Montgomery

Civil War Book Review

In the months leading up to the War and indeed through the duration of the conflict, one heard speeches everywhere in the South, according to Voices in the Storm, a short volume by historian Karen E. Fritz. Speechmaking at first created, then sus-tained, and in the end reflected, the mood of ....