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Didactic Solo Piano Works By Alexandre Tansman., Susan Marie Tusing Jan 1993

Didactic Solo Piano Works By Alexandre Tansman., Susan Marie Tusing

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The musical career of the Polish composer Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986) was multifaceted. He frequently performed as a pianist and conductor, and he composed numerous works for various performance media. Tansman was a well-respected musician, having received during his lifetime many awards and honors for his compositions. Among Tansman's music are numerous didactic works for solo piano. These pieces expose the student to a variety of musical genres and styles, while at the same time providing practical experience in the acquisition of musical and technical skills. This monograph examines the didactic solo piano works of Tansman, focusing primarily on the collections …

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Psychological Reactions To An Mi: A Study Of Attention And Avoidance To Cardiac Stimuli., Joseph Ila Constans Jan 1993

Psychological Reactions To An Mi: A Study Of Attention And Avoidance To Cardiac Stimuli., Joseph Ila Constans

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Previous research has shown that anxiety-disordered subjects attend to information directly relevant to their area of concern. In this study, it was postulated that cardiac-related stimuli would have attention capturing characteristics for individuals with no psychiatric history but who had recently experienced a myocardial infarction (MI). To study this hypothesis, MI subjects (n = 34) and matched controls (n = 31) participated in an attentional search task. MI subjects showed slower reaction times (RT) for both cardiac and socially threatening distractors compared to RT when neutral distractors were present. For both MI and control subjects distress level was associated with …

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An Algorithm For Supervisory Multivariable Constrained Optimization Of Industrial Processes., William E. Daniel Jr Jan 1993

An Algorithm For Supervisory Multivariable Constrained Optimization Of Industrial Processes., William E. Daniel Jr

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An algorithm is presented for supervisory optimization of industrial processes that combines the minimization of operating costs with process operating constraints. The supervisory algorithm manipulates the set points of a lower-level control system and the set points are updated at long enough intervals of time so that the process reaches steady state between set point updates. This steady state assumption greatly simplifies the algorithm computations and, more importantly, significantly reduces the effort required for process identification. This dissertation develops the algorithm and then presents results from its application to a simulated distillation train and reactor feed network. In both applications, …

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Bimetallic Hydroformylation Catalysis., Melanie Eilleen Broussard Jan 1993

Bimetallic Hydroformylation Catalysis., Melanie Eilleen Broussard

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The purpose of this project was to build upon previous results obtained with the ligand Et$\sb2$PCH$\sb2$CH$\sb2$P(Ph)CH$\sb2$P(Ph)CH$\sb2$CH$\sb2$PEt$ \sb2$, (hereafter referred to as et,ph-P4). The ligand was designed to both bridge and chelate two metal centers to hold them in close proximity so that cooperativity between the two metals is possible in homogeneous catalysis. This project concentrated on the synthesis of new bimetallic complexes using this ligand and the investigation of their catalytic potential. A highly regioselective bimetallic hydroformylation catalyst racemic- (Rh$\sb2$(nbd)$\sb2$(et,ph-P4)) 2BF$\sb4$ was previously synthesized in our laboratories. Structure reactivity studies were undertaken to prove our theory that the high linear …

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Computer Training: The Role Of Computer Attitudes And Behavior Modeling In The Acquisition Of Declarative And Procedural Knowledge., Drew Benjamin Brock Jan 1993

Computer Training: The Role Of Computer Attitudes And Behavior Modeling In The Acquisition Of Declarative And Procedural Knowledge., Drew Benjamin Brock

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This research examined technology training (using computers as a specific instance of technology) in a framework that integrated concepts drawn from cognitive and social learning theory. Borrowing from cognitive learning theory, two types of knowledge were assessed: declarative knowledge (knowing what) and procedural knowledge (knowing how). Behavior modeling training, drawn from social learning theory, was used as the primary training methodology. It was proposed that the factors contributing to learning as a function of behavior modeling are the same factors that lead to procedural knowledge acquisition. I also examined the effects of two major attitudes toward computers in predicting computer …

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Forecasting The Economic Effects Of Produced Waters Discharge Regulations On Oil And Gas Activity In Coastal Louisiana., Allen Paul Dupont Jan 1993

Forecasting The Economic Effects Of Produced Waters Discharge Regulations On Oil And Gas Activity In Coastal Louisiana., Allen Paul Dupont

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Proposed regulations would restrict surface disposal of untreated produced waters by oil and gas producers in coastal south Louisiana. The regulations would impose costs on oil and gas activity. This dissertation develops an integrated model of exploration and production activities which utilizes both economic and geological concepts, in which the cost of compliance with the proposed regulations is treated as a reduction in the real net price of oil. The goal is to predict the effects of the proposed regulations on exploration and production activity in the study region. The main findings are: (i) the proposed regulations would reinforce the …

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Mimesis And Poiesis In The Novel: William Faulkner's "Go Down, Moses" And The Mythopoeic Turn In The American Imagination., Paul Richard Connell Jan 1993

Mimesis And Poiesis In The Novel: William Faulkner's "Go Down, Moses" And The Mythopoeic Turn In The American Imagination., Paul Richard Connell

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In the course of its development as a genre, the novel shifted in the mid-twentieth century from a mimetic model grounded in imitation and colored with pessimism, to a poietic one based on discovery and novelty and foregrounded in hope. Precipitated by a crisis in representation after Joyce, the novel found in its own history, through the recuperation of older literary forms, new possibilities of representation, and shifted away from assumptions based on fact and history, to one grounded in miracle and myth. This shift was anticipated by the theories of the German Romantics Schlegel and Novalis and is adumbrated …

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Methodological Content And Teaching Delivery Used By Vocational Teacher Education Faculty In University Council And Other Selected Higher Education Institutions., Robert Barry Blair Jan 1993

Methodological Content And Teaching Delivery Used By Vocational Teacher Education Faculty In University Council And Other Selected Higher Education Institutions., Robert Barry Blair

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The purpose of this study was to identify the methodological content and teaching delivery used by vocational teacher education faculty in University Council for Vocational Education (UCVE) institutions and other selected higher education institutions (NON-UCVE). The population for this study was defined as: full-time vocational teacher education faculty in programs at Research I, Research II, and Doctorate Granting Colleges and Universities I where comprehensive vocational education programs were offered. Administrative leaders for each institution identified the vocational teacher education faculty which established the frame for the study. A stratified-random cluster sample of vocational teacher educators from UCVE institutions and NON-UCVE …

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Structural Analysis And Methionine Ehancement Of The Bean Seed Storage Protein Phaseolin., John M. Dyer Jan 1993

Structural Analysis And Methionine Ehancement Of The Bean Seed Storage Protein Phaseolin., John M. Dyer

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Common beans are widely utilized as a food source, yet are limited as a complete source of protein due to low levels of methionine, an essential amino acid for humans. A protein engineering strategy was developed to increase the methionine content of phaseolin, the primary seed storage protein in common beans. The engineering strategy consists of three major parts. In the first part, a set of biophysical probes was developed to characterize the stability of wild-type and modified phaseolin proteins. I used absorbance, fluorescence emission, circular dichroism, and fluorescence polarization anisotropy to monitor phaseolin denaturation induced by urea, guanidinium chloride, …

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The Relationship Of Conversational Sensitivity And Employment Interview Experience To Deception Detection In Employment Interviews., Karen Anding Fontenot Jan 1993

The Relationship Of Conversational Sensitivity And Employment Interview Experience To Deception Detection In Employment Interviews., Karen Anding Fontenot

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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between conversational sensitivity and employment interview experience to deception detection in employment interviews. Controversial sensitivity refers to one's ability to detect and decode the verbal, paralinguistic, and nonverbal cues that occur in conversations. Two research questions were asked: (1) Is conversational sensitivity related to deception detection in employment interviews? (2) Is employment interview experience related to deception detection in employment interviews? A sample of 230 subjects (150 students and 80 professionals) participated in the study, which had two phases. In phase one, subjects completed the Conversational Sensitivity Scale, a 36-item, …

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Synthesis And Characterization Of Copolycarbonates Derived From 2,2,4,4-Tetramethyl-1,3-Cyclobutanediol., Carey Cecil Geiger Jan 1993

Synthesis And Characterization Of Copolycarbonates Derived From 2,2,4,4-Tetramethyl-1,3-Cyclobutanediol., Carey Cecil Geiger

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Alternating copoly(bis-phenol-co-2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-1,3-cyclobutane) carbonates are synthesized from 2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-1,3-cyclobutanedichloro-formate and the corresponding bis-phenol using a solution polymerization technique. The bis-phenols consist of various 4,4$\sp\prime$-substituted diphenols including: 2,2-propane; 1,1-cyclohexane; 1,1-(4-t-butyl)cyclohexane; 2,2-tricyclo (3.3.1.1) decane; 2,2-bicyclo (3.2.1) heptane; 1,1-(1-phenyl)ethane; 2,2-hexafluoropropane; carbonyl; 9,9-fluorene; sulfide; sulfone; and diphenyl-methane. Crystal structures of the 9,9-tricyclo (3.3.1.1$\sp{3,7}$) decane and 1,1-(4-t-butyl)cyclohexane bis-phenols, previously unreported in the literature, confirm the structures proposed and reveal that the compounds are solvated with acetonitrile and toluene, respectively. The copolymers are isolated by precipitation in methanol; yields ranging from 50 to 80% are obtained. All monomers and polymers reported are characterized by $\sp1$H and $\sp{13}$C NMR …

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Depressive Symptoms In Prepubertal Children., Lesley Stabinsky Compton Jan 1993

Depressive Symptoms In Prepubertal Children., Lesley Stabinsky Compton

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This study was designed: (1) to explore interinformant reliability between preadolescent students, their teachers, and their parents; (2) to investigate the use of standardized and non-standardized academic variables as predictors of depression; and (3) to assess differences in depression between black and white students. One hundred and twenty, fourth and fifth grade students and teachers participated. Sixty-eight parents also volunteered for this study. The Child Depression Inventory and the modified Bellevue Index of Depression were administered to students, teachers, and parents. Significant but moderate interinformant reliability was found between teachers and students and between teachers and parents on both assessment …

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Voices From Home: Familial Bonds In The Works Of Horton Foote (1916- )., Marion Dean Castleberry Jan 1993

Voices From Home: Familial Bonds In The Works Of Horton Foote (1916- )., Marion Dean Castleberry

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

For more than half a century Horton Foote has been regarded as one of America's foremost dramatists. Born and reared in Wharton, Texas, he wrote his first play Wharton Dance in 1939, at the age of twenty-three, and gained his first Broadway production, Only The Heart, in 1944. His success as a playwright led to television, for which he wrote some of his finest dramas, and finally to a distinguished career in film. Foote has received numerous awards for his plays and screenplays, including Academy Awards for To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) and Tender Mercies (1983) and an Academy Award …

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The Distribution Of Toxic Sources In Louisiana: An Analysis Of Community Socioeconomic Characteristics And Industry Behavior., Salpie Sarkis Djoundourian Jan 1993

The Distribution Of Toxic Sources In Louisiana: An Analysis Of Community Socioeconomic Characteristics And Industry Behavior., Salpie Sarkis Djoundourian

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The distribution patterns of toxic sources in Louisiana reveal that some communities may be disproportionately exposed to potential environmental risks. This dissertation examines whether the location and environmental control behavior of toxic polluters are systematically related to the socioeconomic and racial characteristics of communities. The study identifies who lives in the immediate proximity of toxic sources and determines whether the characteristics of these communities are different from those of Louisiana's general population. The results reveal that income levels in communities that host toxic sources are consistently and significantly lower than the state averages. A distance gradient analysis indicates that as …

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The Influence Of Selected 4-H Agent And Program Characteristics On Program Enrollment., Catherine L. Denison Jan 1993

The Influence Of Selected 4-H Agent And Program Characteristics On Program Enrollment., Catherine L. Denison

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The primary purpose of this study was to identify program and agent characteristics which are related to changes in 4-H enrollment. The target population of the study was defined as agents of the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service (LCES) assigned to work with the 4-H program who had been in a 4-H position for at least one year. The research instrument (questionnaire) was mailed to a random sample of 64 agents. One agent was randomly selected from each of the 64 parishes in Louisiana. Sixty-three agents (98.43%) responded to the questionnaire. Major findings of the study included: (1) A significant difference …

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Physiological And Biochemical Responses To Hypoxia In The Blue Crab, Callinectes Sapidus Rathbun, The Lesser Blue Crab, Callinectes Similis Williams, And The Southern Oyster Drill, Stramonita Haemastoma Linnaeus., Tapash Das Jan 1993

Physiological And Biochemical Responses To Hypoxia In The Blue Crab, Callinectes Sapidus Rathbun, The Lesser Blue Crab, Callinectes Similis Williams, And The Southern Oyster Drill, Stramonita Haemastoma Linnaeus., Tapash Das

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This study measured the physiological and biochemical changes associated with exposure of the juvenile blue crab, Callinectes sapidus Rathbun and the lesser blue crab. C. similis Williams, to long term (28 d) hypoxia, short term (10 d) transfer from hypoxia to normoxia and a diurnally fluctuating oxygen regime for 28 days. The southern oyster drill, Stramonita haemastoma Linnaeus, was also exposed to 28 days of constant hypoxia to compare the responses of a tolerant species with the two species of Callinectes. The 28 day LC$\sb{50}$ estimates for C. sapidus, C. similis and S. haemastoma were respectively 106, 43 and 11.5 …

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A Geoforensic Analysis Of State-Owned Waterbottoms In South Louisiana: Gauging The Geographical Impacts Of Louisiana Court Decisions. (Volumes I And Ii)., George Joseph Castille Iii Jan 1993

A Geoforensic Analysis Of State-Owned Waterbottoms In South Louisiana: Gauging The Geographical Impacts Of Louisiana Court Decisions. (Volumes I And Ii)., George Joseph Castille Iii

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The extent of State-owned waterbottoms in south Louisiana was examined through an analysis of Louisiana State court decisions. This analysis included court cases dating from 1812, the year of statehood, until 1992. Sample court cases were divided into groups representing some of the major issues involved in waterbottoms disputes for both coastal and inland areas. The nature of waterborne commerce was examined with an emphasis on identifying the types and sizes of watercraft used in commerce. The identification of waterborne commerce is important because the State owns the bottoms of all naturally formed navigable waterbodies, and navigability is determined by …

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A Study Of Heat Transfer In Rotary Desorbers Used To Remediate Contaminated Soils., Charles Alan Cook Jan 1993

A Study Of Heat Transfer In Rotary Desorbers Used To Remediate Contaminated Soils., Charles Alan Cook

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A comprehensive heat transfer model is developed which describes heat transfer phenomena in rotary desorbers. This model predicts the temperatures of the solids bed and gases in the desorber and the rate of water evaporation from the solids. Emphasis is placed on describing the heat transfer process between the rotating wall of a desorber and the adjacent bed of solids. A heat-balance integral method is used to model heat conduction from the wall to adjacent wet bed particles. This solution includes the effects of water evaporation near the wall and a thermal contact resistance between the wall and the first …

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Unifying Techniques In The "Anniversaries" Of Leonard Bernstein., Conwell Ray Harris Jr Jan 1993

Unifying Techniques In The "Anniversaries" Of Leonard Bernstein., Conwell Ray Harris Jr

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During his career as a conductor, lecturer, pianist, and composer, Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) touched the lives of countless people. His musical output reached from symphonies to Broadway musicals, and from ballets to sacred choral works. Though most of Bernstein's compositions are large-scale works, he also composed a number of miniatures for solo piano entitled "Anniversaries." There are four sets: Seven Anniversaries (1944), Four Anniversaries (1945), Five Anniversaries (1964), and Thirteen Anniversaries (1989). Bernstein's musical style has been described as eclectic, but his use of unifying devices is a common thread found in many of his works in all genres. Most …

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An Examination Of The Role Of Collateral In The Loan Contracting Process., Gregory Kenneth Faulk Jan 1993

An Examination Of The Role Of Collateral In The Loan Contracting Process., Gregory Kenneth Faulk

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examines the competing roles advocated for collateral in a loan contract: solving problems of adverse selection, underinvestment, incentive contracting, bankruptcy and dilution of the monitoring services provided by banks. These theories cannot be separated based upon the effect of collateral on the borrowing firm's share price. Market based evaluations for security produce: (1) a positive response for small firms in an event study, but not confirmed with multiple regression; (2) a negative association for NASDAQ listed firms with regression, but not with event study methods; and (3) no response for NYSE/Amex firms with either method although they comprise …

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Hydrologic Modelling With A Spatial Database., Richard Gilbert Greene Jan 1993

Hydrologic Modelling With A Spatial Database., Richard Gilbert Greene

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Hydrologic modelling can be enhanced and improved through the utilization of a Geographic Information System (GIS). Information can be stored and analyzed by the tools available within a GIS to create a spatial database that realistically represents a watershed for hydrologic modelling. This study presents an approach whereby the data available in the GIS determine the modelling strategy. The soil, topography and land cover data for the watershed were analyzed with the spatial analysis tools of a GIS to determine the hydrologic response areas. The coordinate values that define the locations and boundaries of features in the GIS were used …

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Romanticism Reconsidered: The Implications Of Organicism In Educational Reform., Anne Burford Griffin Jan 1993

Romanticism Reconsidered: The Implications Of Organicism In Educational Reform., Anne Burford Griffin

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to reconsider what has historically been called "Romantic" in American education. What I discovered was the ubiquity of organicism--an organicism which, when applied to education, promises to heal divisions with connection and integration. A reading of Romanticism as organicism is a traditional interpretation which fails to acknowledge the revisionist work of critics like de Man, Hartman, Bloom, and McFarland, who regard the Romantic recognition of language and self-consciousness as providing alienation, not unity. However, education continues to regard the Romantics as organicists and to provide organic remedies, such as the organic reforms proposed in …

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Object-Oriented Modeling And Design Using Delta, An Incremental Design Language., Nancy Kay Gautier Jan 1993

Object-Oriented Modeling And Design Using Delta, An Incremental Design Language., Nancy Kay Gautier

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Object-oriented technology has opened the doors for many new ideas in system development. The object-oriented paradigm has produced many new object-oriented programming languages. As with any new methodology, a need for formalism arises to remove ambiguities and inconsistencies and to bring a sense of continuity to software design. Formal languages provide a sound basis for software development throughout the software life cycle. This work presents a set of characteristic features for object-oriented design languages and defines a formal object-oriented design language, DELTA. The rapidly changing face of software has led to an ever increasing need to update out-of-date methods and …

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Pedogenic Development Of Soils At High Altitude In Burundi., Salvator Kaburungu Jan 1993

Pedogenic Development Of Soils At High Altitude In Burundi., Salvator Kaburungu

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To evaluate the effects of long-term cultivation and pasture on deforested soils at high altitude in Burundi, comparisons of morphological, physical, chemical and mineralogical properties of soils under natural forest with their counterparts under cultivation and pasture were performed. A typical soil under natural forest classifies as fine, oxidic, isomesic, Typic Haplorthods. Cultivated soils classify as fine, oxidic, isothermic Humic Hapludoxs. Pastured soils classify as fine, oxidic, isothermic, allic Humic Hapludoxs. When the sombric horizon is prominent, they classify as Sombriudoxs. We proposed a Spodic subgroup for the Hapludoxs. The studied area was highly weathered prior to faulting and uplifting …

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A New Therapeutic Concept Based On Hyperstabilization Of Sense-Antisense Duplexes., Dae-Yong Kim Jan 1993

A New Therapeutic Concept Based On Hyperstabilization Of Sense-Antisense Duplexes., Dae-Yong Kim

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We proposed that known helix-stabilizing, minor-groove binding agents such as CC-1065 and its analog, U-71,184, might be feasibly targeted to specific mRNA by tethering them to antisense oligonucleotides. The CC-1065-tethered antisense oligonucleotide might be hyperstabilized to the target mRNA and arrest the translation of mRNA. Our hypothesis is that these agents can bind and increase the stability of RNA-DNA duplexes which may occur between mRNA and antisense oligonucleotides. To verify our hypothesis, we evaluated the ability of CC-1065, U-71,184, and distamycin A to bind and hyperstabilize the 20-mer sense sequence (5$\sp\prime$-TTACTTCAGTTATGAGACCA-3$\sp\prime)$ duplexed with complementary (antisense) oligonucleotide sequence made with phosphodiester …

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In Vitro Studies On The Interactions Between Toxoplasma Gondii And Its Host Cell., Sandra Karen Halonen Jan 1993

In Vitro Studies On The Interactions Between Toxoplasma Gondii And Its Host Cell., Sandra Karen Halonen

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Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite of the Phylum Apicomplexa. The parasite resides in the cytoplasm of its host cells in a membrane bound compartment called the parasitophorous vacuole. All growth and development of the parasite occur within this compartment. In this thesis, the interactions between the Vero cells, a fibroblast-like cell line, and the parasite which occur during the intracellular growth of the parasite were addressed. The impact of infection on the host cell intermediate filaments and microtubular cytoskeletal elements was examined by immunofluorescence microscopy. Host cell intermediate filaments were found to overcoat the parasite vacuole beginning …

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Mathematical Model Of Hairy Root Growth., Seungdo Kim Jan 1993

Mathematical Model Of Hairy Root Growth., Seungdo Kim

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Hairy roots produce secondary metabolites which have been used as specialty chemicals. The mathematical models of hairy root growth kinetics can guide the design and scale-up of root cultures. An unstructured segregated and a chemically structured segregated models for hairy growth kinetics are formulated with rules of root branching processes. The deterministic branching rule and the stochastic branching rule are studied. For the deterministic rule where two branching parameters are assumed constant, the number of tips can be obtained by solving a linear difference equation. The conceptual framework established for the deterministic rule is used to formulate a stochastic rule …

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Embedding Schemes For Interconnection Networks., David Aloys Hoelzeman Jan 1993

Embedding Schemes For Interconnection Networks., David Aloys Hoelzeman

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Graph embeddings play an important role in interconnection network and VLSI design. Designing efficient embedding strategies for simulating one network by another and determining the number of layers required to build a VLSI chip are just two of the many areas in which graph embeddings are used. In the area of network simulation we develop efficient, small dilation embeddings of a butterfly network into a different size and/or type of butterfly network. The genus of a graph gives an indication of how many layers are required to build a circuit. We have determined the exact genus for the permutation network …

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Pollutant Transport In Buoyancy Driven Atmospheric Flows., Youn-Seo Koo Jan 1993

Pollutant Transport In Buoyancy Driven Atmospheric Flows., Youn-Seo Koo

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Due to the complexity of some buoyancy driven atmospheric flows, it is sometimes not possible to accurately predict pollutant transport on the basis of sparse wind field measurements. A possible solution is mathematical modelling of both the flow and pollutant transport. In order to overcome shortcomings of the conventional E-$\epsilon$ model such as defining proportionality coefficients (c$\sb{\rm m},$ c$\sb{\rm h})$ and to develop a more general model of stratified environmental flows, a modified E-$\epsilon$ model was proposed through use of the algebraic stress model including wall proximity effects. The resulting model was compared herein to data and higher order simulations …

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Attentional Bias And Subjective Risk In Hypochondriacal Concern., Polly Beth Hitchcock Jan 1993

Attentional Bias And Subjective Risk In Hypochondriacal Concern., Polly Beth Hitchcock

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Although cognitive theories suggest that attentional bias to illness stimuli and inflation of subjective risk of future negative health events are etiologically related to hypochondriacal concern, little empirical research has been conducted on these cognitive distortions. The present study investigated attentional bias, as inferred from RTs on an attentional search information processing paradigm, and subjective risk, as measured by probability judgments of future health events, in 200 medical outpatients differing in level of hypochondriacal concern. It was hypothesized that hypochondriacal concern would be associated with specific cognitive biases for illness-related, as opposed to socially threatening, stimuli. It was also hypothesized …

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