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Prediction Of Sugarcane Cross Potential At Early Selection Stages., Yih-Shiow Chang
Prediction Of Sugarcane Cross Potential At Early Selection Stages., Yih-Shiow Chang
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The primary goal of this study was to develop a faster sugarcane cross appraisal method. The effect of intrarow plant spacing on trait variability was also investigated. The study evaluated 1800 progeny from 15 crosses among 23 parents at two intrarow plant spacings in 1989 and 1990. Data were collected on plant cane (PC) and first ratoon (FR) single stool seedlings, and first clonal (FC) plots. The family mean, the normal probability of an elite proportion (PROB), the observed elite proportion, and the best linear unbiased predictors (BLUPs) were estimated for each trait. The calculated statistics were strongly correlated within …
Dominance, Marginality, And Subversion In French (Post)Colonial Discourse., Suzanne Mary Chester
Dominance, Marginality, And Subversion In French (Post)Colonial Discourse., Suzanne Mary Chester
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation examines a selection of fictional texts by Marguerite Duras, Andre Gide, Assia Djebar and Tahar ben Jelloun. In my readings of these colonial and post-colonial narratives, I explore the textual strategies which transform marginalized positions based on colonialism, gender, sexual orientation and class into positions of dominance. In Gide and Duras, for example, this is evident in their complicity with dominant ideologies of colonialism. By contrast, the second section of the dissertation focuses on the oppositional strategies in the work of Djebar and ben Jelloun, two post-colonial writers from North Africa. Here, I analyze the ways in which …
Social Networks And Linguistic Accommodation Of Mainland Chinese In An Urban American Chinese Community., Hong Chi
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The growing number of immigrants from both Taiwan and Mainland China have brought speakers of different Mandarin varieties into contact in an American context. In the Chinese community in Los Angeles, Mainland Putonghua speakers are found to accommodate their language to the local Taiwan Mandarin speakers. Social network analysis, a model oriented toward the individual, is adapted here for analyzing this linguistic situation. The conversation of 35 informants was recorded within a naturally occurring context and their social network scores were compared with their scores for nine linguistic variables selected for this study. It was found that the accommodation process …
A Syntactic Language Computer Analysis Of Depressed Versus Non-Depressed Females., Daniel Merton Christy
A Syntactic Language Computer Analysis Of Depressed Versus Non-Depressed Females., Daniel Merton Christy
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This study sought to examine the interrelationship of cognition and language in the clinical syndrome of depression. It was proposed that the types of cognitive differences in depression proposed by Beck and other cognitive theorists would be reflected in language usage, and especially in syntax. Using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), subjects were classified as either depressed (BDI $\geq$ 16) or non-depressed (BDI $\leq$ 4). Subjects were asked to speak into a tape recorder for 3-5 minutes on each of three stimuli, a positive event, a negative event, and a neutral opinion stimulus. The language samples were then analyzed using …
A Theoretical Approach Involving Recurrence Resolution, Dependence Cycle Statement Ordering And Subroutine Transformation For The Exploitation Of Parallelism In Sequential Code., Chih-Ping Chu
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
To exploit parallelism in Fortran code, this dissertation consists of a study of the following three issues: (1) recurrence resolution in Do-loops for vector processing, (2) dependence cycle statement ordering in Do-loops for parallel processing, and (3) sub-routine parallelization. For recurrence resolution, the major findings include: (1) the node splitting algorithm cannot be used directly to break an essential antidependence link, of which the source variable that results in antidependence is itself the sink variable of another true dependence so a correction method is proposed, (2) a sink variable renaming technique is capable of breaking an antidependence and/or output-dependence link, …
A Blackboard Architecture For The Integration Of Manufacturing Systems., Calvin Michael Collins
A Blackboard Architecture For The Integration Of Manufacturing Systems., Calvin Michael Collins
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
American companies engaged in manufacturing are in the midst of adjusting to the increasingly stiff foreign competition as they attempt to satisfy the demands of expanding markets. U.S. manufacturing must continue the movement toward leaner, more streamlined production if they are to survive with the new market realities. Computerizing different aspects in the accounting, production, planning, and marketing divisions, has been central in the quest for higher productivity for four decades. Research is now centering on the integration of these systems and the goal is to integrate the accounting, planning and marketing functions of the organization with the automated manufacturing …
Techniques For The Optimization Of Supercritical Fluid Chromatographic Separations., Jeffrey Alan Crow
Techniques For The Optimization Of Supercritical Fluid Chromatographic Separations., Jeffrey Alan Crow
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Although supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) is now well established and still growing rapidly, it must offer clear advantages over other techniques. Thus proper method development in SFC is a necessity. There are many diverse and synergetic parameters controlling SFC separations, resulting in complex retention behavior. This work describes the proper approach to method development, including investigations into unique mobile phases and some techniques which can be used for optimization of SFC separations. In Chapter One, the concepts of chromatography with supercritical fluids are first introduced, including method development and optimization. Chapter Two focuses on mobile phase method development, and examines …
A Multivariate Analysis Of Voter Turnout In Louisiana Contested Nonpartisan Judicial Elections, 1981-1988., Olethia Davis
A Multivariate Analysis Of Voter Turnout In Louisiana Contested Nonpartisan Judicial Elections, 1981-1988., Olethia Davis
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The purpose of this dissertation is to determine what factors account for variations in voter turnout in Louisiana contested nonpartisan trial and intermediate appellate court elections. The central questions to be addressed are: (1) what is the precise relationship between incumbency or prior judicial experience, campaign spending, and the race of judicial candidates, ceteris paribus (with all else remaining the same), on electoral participation in judicial elections in the State of Louisiana from 1981 to 1988 and (2) is the electorate that participates in judicial elections typical or atypical of the electorate that participates in presidential general races in terms …
An Ethnographic Study Of Kindergarten Children's Literacy Skills And Stress-Related Behaviors Before And After Teacher Demonstration., Nancy Crossland Weems
An Ethnographic Study Of Kindergarten Children's Literacy Skills And Stress-Related Behaviors Before And After Teacher Demonstration., Nancy Crossland Weems
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The purpose of this ethnographic research was to study kindergarten students' literacy skills and stress-related behaviors and a teacher's instructional behavior before and after demonstrations in appropriate bookreading strategies. A lower socio-economic setting, which previously had been identified by Burts, Hart, Charlesworth, and Kirk (1990a) as a developmentally inappropriate instructional environment, was selected for observation as one which might be amenable to change. The demonstrations included bookreading strategies that the kindergarten teacher could implement to promote the acquisition of literacy in ways that do not contribute to stress. Ethnographic data collection consisted of three months of participant observation in one …
Preservice Teachers' Evolving Perspectives Of Elementary Social Studies., Elizabeth K. Wilson
Preservice Teachers' Evolving Perspectives Of Elementary Social Studies., Elizabeth K. Wilson
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Recent studies which have focused on preservice teachers' perspectives of elementary social studies have attempted to discover the product of the relationships between their conceptions of social studies and their classroom practices. This research, conducted only during the clinical experience, indicated that the beliefs and ideas which teachers express about social studies have little effect on classroom practice. In order to better understand this phenomenon, this study investigated the evolution of preservice teachers' perspectives of social studies through methods instruction as well as the clinical experience. The participants for this study were four preservice teachers who were enrolled in the …
Dynamic Random Coefficient Regression Model For Electricity Demand: The Small Sample Case., Susan Mu-Lan Zee
Dynamic Random Coefficient Regression Model For Electricity Demand: The Small Sample Case., Susan Mu-Lan Zee
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This paper develops a dynamic random coefficient regression model for electricity demand. Six estimation procedures are proposed for the model. An empirical study of the comparative performance of these six estimators is presented. In addition, a Monte Carlo simulation study is reported where we examine the small sample properties of the distributions of the coefficients and observe the behavior of the estimators as the sample size increases.
An Ethnographic Investigation Of The Integration Of Disabled And Nondisabled Two-Year-Old Children., Mary Beth Armstrong
An Ethnographic Investigation Of The Integration Of Disabled And Nondisabled Two-Year-Old Children., Mary Beth Armstrong
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This study is an ethnographic investigation of the initial integration of a group of disabled and nondisabled two-year-old children. The group was comprised of a class of seven disabled children from a school parish and a class of nine nondisabled children from a university child development center in this same parish. This study incorporated ethnographic data collection and analysis procedures. Data collection procedures included participant observation, ethnographic interviews, artifactual analysis, and videorecording. The results of this study suggest that a process of stigmatization occurred in this integration program. The process of stigmatization and factors perhaps accounting for the process are …
The In-Store Retail Experience: A C-E-V Approach To Consumer Shopping Activity., Barry James Babin
The In-Store Retail Experience: A C-E-V Approach To Consumer Shopping Activity., Barry James Babin
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Environmental psychology has been increasingly applied to the study of consumer patronage behavior. This study adapts a model based largely on environmental psychology and tests it empirically in an attempt to explain several aspects of in-store consumer behavior. In doing so, it goes beyond previous applications of environmental psychology by considering the effect of several antecedents of consumer emotions and by considering the consequences of varying retail experiences in terms of the personal shopping value they convey to a consumer. Prior to testing the model, previous research is reviewed to develop the relationships comprising the model. Put simply, various consumer …
Implied Volatility And Risk Preference From Option Prices., Kenneth Steven Bartunek
Implied Volatility And Risk Preference From Option Prices., Kenneth Steven Bartunek
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation consists of two empirical studies on options. In the first study, an estimate of the constant proportional risk aversion parameter is implied from the equivalent martingale measure framework. Within this framework, we use call options as opposed to the traditional consumption data to imply our estimate. We compare forecasts of volatility for the asset underlying an option in the second study. Three methods have been used to forecast volatility in the past. These are an historical estimate, an estimate implied from the Black-Scholes European call option pricing model, and an estimate based on generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity. The …
The Effect Of Work And Non-Work Influences Upon The Relationships Between Role Stress And Selected Work Outcomes., James Sanders Boles
The Effect Of Work And Non-Work Influences Upon The Relationships Between Role Stress And Selected Work Outcomes., James Sanders Boles
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This study examined the importance of two constructs--work relationships and job/home conflict--as potential mediators/moderators of the linkage between role conflict and role ambiguity with a variety of work outcomes in a salesforce setting. These outcomes include: sales performance, job satisfaction, emotional burnout, and propensity to leave. Results indicate that the relationships between these outcomes and the role variables are often mediated rather than direct. Implications for both researchers and practitioners are developed as well as a future research agenda.
Toward A Phenomenology Of Curriculum: The Work Of Max Van Manen And T. Tetsuo Aoki., Robert Kent Brown
Toward A Phenomenology Of Curriculum: The Work Of Max Van Manen And T. Tetsuo Aoki., Robert Kent Brown
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
In this study an attempt was made at understanding contemporary thought and application of phenomenological research to the field of curriculum and instruction. More specifically, it sought to identify a place and need for a methodology in curriculum research that exposes and clarifies the dynamics of pedagogy as a result of investigating the existential/ontological nature of pedagogical activity. In accomplishing this, the works of two major North American phenomenological curriculum theorists, T. Tetsuo Aoki and Max van Manen were examined. The work of these two significant contemporary curriculum theorists was used due to the international recognition their seminal phenomenologically oriented …
The Federal Writers' Project's Mirror To America: The Florida Reflection., Pamela G. Bordelon
The Federal Writers' Project's Mirror To America: The Florida Reflection., Pamela G. Bordelon
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
In the 1930s, the federal writers of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) plowed fertile new ground in American cultural scholarship. The writers were for the most part not professionals but white collar workers who had been dramatically rescued from unemployment by this government relief project. Like other New Deal relief agencies, the Writers' Project had been created more to make work than to do work. But by the end of the program, it had charted a nation and documented American life more comprehensively than any earlier effort had done. In Florida the federal writers produced a state guide, pioneered African-American …
Development Of An Advanced Thermospray Interfaced Hplc-Aas System For Speciation Studies Of Cadmium Species Excreted From Human Body Fluids: Interaction Between Metallothionein Cadmium And Zinc., Peter Ping Chang
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
A new technique has been developed to reveal different metal species at very low concentrations (lower ppb level) in human body fluids. Using this technique it was determined that urine contained many different species of cadmium and that perspiration contained many other species of cadmium. This indicated that there were two avenues for the elimination of cadmium from the body. Quantitative data showed that much more cadmium was eliminated through perspiration than urine and that the biological half life of cadmium in the body was less than 1.5 years--not 20-30 years as currently believed. Further, in vitro experiments showed that …
The Evaluation And Comparison Of Aquatic Methodology For Measurement Of Bacterial Population Dynamics And Grazing Activity In Diverse Aquatic Ecosystems., Richardus F. Kaswadji
The Evaluation And Comparison Of Aquatic Methodology For Measurement Of Bacterial Population Dynamics And Grazing Activity In Diverse Aquatic Ecosystems., Richardus F. Kaswadji
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Observations and experiments were conducted to evaluate methodologies for measuring aquatic bacterial population dynamics and grazing activity in ecologically dissimilar ecosystems. Samples were taken from Auke Bay, AK, the Mississippi River at Plaquemine, LA, the Terrebonne Bay estuary, LA, and the Mississippi River plume. Four methods were compared for measuring bacterioplankton growth and grazing mortality rates: dilution, filtration, antibiotic, and the Servais et al. (1985) procedures. The dilution method appeared to be the best among those compared. Among all sites, bacterial density ranged from 0.02 to 10$\sp6$ ml$\sp{-1}$, and bacterial growth and grazing mortality rates, estimated using the dilution method, …
Comparison Of Rhizoctonia Foliar Blights Of Soybean With Respect To Infection Process, Double-Stranded Rna Components, And Evaluation Of Resistance., Chandrasekar S. Kousik
Comparison Of Rhizoctonia Foliar Blights Of Soybean With Respect To Infection Process, Double-Stranded Rna Components, And Evaluation Of Resistance., Chandrasekar S. Kousik
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Infection cushions were formed in a similar manner on soybean leaves by Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA (aerial blight) and AG-1 IB (web blight) isolates, however, AG-1 IB produced more mucilagenous material. Leaf topography did not induce infection cushion formation. More infection cushions were formed by isolates of AG-1 IA and IB on collodion membranes placed over leaves of susceptible compared to resistant cultivars. Glucose and 3-O-methylglucose repressed disease severity caused by AG-1 IA and IB isolates to the same extent. However, when the solutions were applied 40 h or longer after inoculation, no repression was observed. Disease severity and number …
Picosecond Pump-Probe Raman Spectroscopy Of Excited States And Relaxation Phenomena In The Condensed Phase., Robert Lingle Jr
Picosecond Pump-Probe Raman Spectroscopy Of Excited States And Relaxation Phenomena In The Condensed Phase., Robert Lingle Jr
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation describes the development and application of pump-probe Raman spectroscopy using 8 ps laser pulses as a technique for the study of relaxation phenomena in the condensed phase. I show three examples of systems studied by this technique. First, the dissipation of the heat deposited in the cage of solvent molecules surrounding a photodissociated diatomic solute is directly measured in the solvent Raman spectrum. Second, we provide a full characterization of the excited $A\sp\prime$ state of iodine which is formed in solution following photodissociation. This work discusses the solvent dependence of the iodine atom recombination process and points toward …
Remedial English Ten Years After: Former Basic Writers In The Workplace., Eleanor Agnew
Remedial English Ten Years After: Former Basic Writers In The Workplace., Eleanor Agnew
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The purpose of this study was to find out whether writing skills were a handicap to job success for former basic writers who had graduated from college. A population of 197 former basic writers (FBW's) and 68 former strong writers (FSW's, used as a comparison) were surveyed and interviewed. Research questions included (1) What types of jobs do FBW's have, compared to FSW's, and how much do their feelings about writing affect their choices of major or job? (2) How much and how often do FBW's write at work compared to FSW's? (3) What forms of writing do FBW's do …
Implicit Vs Explicit Mood Congruent Memory Bias In Depression., Philip Charles Watkins
Implicit Vs Explicit Mood Congruent Memory Bias In Depression., Philip Charles Watkins
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Mood congruent memory (MCM) in depressed individuals, tends to be biased toward memories consistent with their mood, i.e. negative or unpleasant memories. Although MCM is a robust finding, the large majority of studies have used free-recall paradigms, and that methodology does little to delineate the cognitive mechanisms determining MCM. This study was designed to investigate whether MCM bias is a function of implicit or explicit memory. Implicit memory is taken as a measure of the organization or strength of association of the aspects of a memory representation, whereas explicit memory also taps elaboration that may involve control procedures such as …
Cooperation In The Liberalization Of Soviet-Western Trade? A Transaction-Cost Analysis Of Soviet Joint Ventures With The West., Elza Perry Ballard
Cooperation In The Liberalization Of Soviet-Western Trade? A Transaction-Cost Analysis Of Soviet Joint Ventures With The West., Elza Perry Ballard
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This study employs the method of transaction-cost analysis--the price of doing business between economic and political agents--to the study of Soviet-Western political economy (particularly Soviet joint ventures with the West). Its purpose is to determine: (1) if Soviet foreign economic policy in the Gorbachev era has reduced the transaction costs to Western firms engaging in joint ventures with the Soviet Union when compared to previous Western business options (e.g., co-production, licensing, turn-key projects), and (2) if the reduction is sufficient to encourage joint ventures to become a mechanism of greater cooperation and liberalization in Soviet-Western political economy and the international …
Self And Power: Political Reconstruction In The Drama Of Christopher Marlowe., Patricia A. Brown
Self And Power: Political Reconstruction In The Drama Of Christopher Marlowe., Patricia A. Brown
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Christopher Marlowe created Renaissance drama as we think of it today. Marlowe's princely protagonists are studied here not as sovereigns responsible for the general well-being of their subjects, but as ambitious characters who use power to control their personal environment. Seen from this viewpoint, the dramatic function of the central characters is either to develop a new stance toward the idea of public authority or to refashion an old one. Instead of attending to governance, they attempt to encompass all existence within themselves: Tamburlaine the world conqueror; Edward and Dido, public rulers whose private relationships transform their public positions; the …
School Administration As Brinkmanship., Eddy A. Haynes
School Administration As Brinkmanship., Eddy A. Haynes
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Students, teachers, and principals sometimes test the boundaries set by the system in which they work, often with the goal of adapting to their circumstances while avoiding punishment. This type of behavior, called brinkmanship, was defined by Licata and Willower (1975) in terms of subordinate challenges to an educational organization's authority system that avoid negative sanctions. Principal brinkmanship can also be defined in terms of discretionary decision making (Morris, et al. 1984) which is the implementation of policies and programs at the school level in a way that fits the principal's values, philosophy, and goals. This research focused on school …
Writing And Modernity: Colette's Feminist Fiction., Lezlie Hart Stivale
Writing And Modernity: Colette's Feminist Fiction., Lezlie Hart Stivale
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
My choice of Colette's fiction as the subject of critical analysis is one occasioned not only by the richness of her literary corpus, but also by the marginalization of Colette's work as "natural" or "feminine" within the French literary canon. While much has been written on Colette, consideration of her personal life has overly influenced the critical evaluation of her works. I break with the prevalent biographical trend in Colette criticism by approaching seven of her novels from feminist perspectives informed by deconstruction, narratology and psychoanalysis. These productive readings reveal multiple destabilizing effects. A close reading of Cheri locates sites …
The Relation Between Categorization And Recognition In Ill-Defined Categories., Jeung-Ryeul Cho
The Relation Between Categorization And Recognition In Ill-Defined Categories., Jeung-Ryeul Cho
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This study investigated the relation between recognition and categorization and examined learning processes associated with categorization of ill-defined concepts. Three experiments were conducted, in which recognition and categorization data were simultaneously collected (Estes, 1986b). Stimuli were bar charts and letter strings that simulated symptom patterns. Category structures were defined by independent features in Experiment 1 and correlated features in Experiments 2 and 3. Three different models of categorization, exemplar models, rule models, and dual process models, were contrasted in predicting recognition and categorization performances and the learning processes used to categorize. Across the three experiments, recognition and categorization were often …
Low-Pressure Phase Equilibria Of Heavy Aromatic Compounds., Ajay Gupta
Low-Pressure Phase Equilibria Of Heavy Aromatic Compounds., Ajay Gupta
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Phase equilibrium diagrams for systems containing compounds found in coal liquids and heavy crude oil are useful in designing separation processes and also in testing and developing of thermodynamic models. Solid-liquid equilibrium (SLE) data are easy to obtain compared with vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) data for systems that are solid near room temperature, because the solids melt to liquids and have relatively high boiling points. It may be possible to extrapolate activity coefficients derived from SLE data to higher temperatures and thus predict vapor-liquid equilibrium. This dissertation presents new SLE and VLE data for compounds related to coal liquids. The problem …
Questioning Authorship In Twentieth Century Literary Autobiography., Donna Marie Perreault
Questioning Authorship In Twentieth Century Literary Autobiography., Donna Marie Perreault
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation, "Questioning Authorship in Twentieth-Century Literary Autobiography," provides readings of narrative autobiographies by some of this century's most prominent and rebellious professional writers. Individual chapters interpret the autobiographies of Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Wright, Gertrude Stein, Simone de Beauvoir, and Zora Neale Hurston. The autobiographies that I read variously represent the transformation of a writer into an author and collectively problematize the personal and literary authorizations effecting this transformation. I examine how these narratives put into question both processes of authorization and the cultural contexts in which they occur, contexts which, diverse though they are, all valorize and regulate …