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La Bestia And Other Stories, Jessica Viada
La Bestia And Other Stories, Jessica Viada
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The following collection of short stories explores the notion of being caught between two worlds, of straddling physical, emotional, linguistic and metaphorical borders. I have chosen these characters in order to give voice to those who are often voiceless. The collection has been divided in two parts in order to challenge ideas of what is "real." I argue that the emotional truth of a story is paramount, and this reality can sometimes be best achieved through unconventional means.
Exploring Storybook Illustrations In Learning Word Meanings, Eleomarques Ferreira Rocha
Exploring Storybook Illustrations In Learning Word Meanings, Eleomarques Ferreira Rocha
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This study explores storybook illustrations in learning word meanings among English learners in a university intensive language program. The impact of children’s literature on the comprehension and vocabulary development of second language children is well-documented. However, the use of the literature with adults still needs to be researched. Therefore, a mixed-method study was designed (1) to investigate whether readers who read an authentic illustrated story differed from those who read the same story without illustrations; and (2) to learn more about the readers’ process of learning words from storybook illustrations. Results suggest that illustrations play an important role in both …
Echoes Of Laocoön's Warning In Letters From An American Farmer , Douglas Barry
Echoes Of Laocoön's Warning In Letters From An American Farmer , Douglas Barry
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
A dramatic shift in tone in the final letter of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer reveals Farmer James' conflicting attitudes about an independent America. When the letters are juxtaposed with a Western myth of origin such as Virgil's Aeneid, it becomes clear that Crèvecoeur is forcing his narrating persona to repeat a pattern of civilization – destruction, renewal – on which all of Western civilization is based. The sudden pessimism that erupts in the penultimate "Distresses of a Frontier Man" is symptomatic of James' anxiety about the American Revolution and the resulting disruption in …
"Throw Me Something, Mister": The History Of Carnival Throws In New Orleans, Lissa Capo
"Throw Me Something, Mister": The History Of Carnival Throws In New Orleans, Lissa Capo
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Mardi Gras draws millions of tourists to New Orleans yearly, contributing to the economy of the city. Visitors soon discover the thrill of catching "throws" tossed to paradegoers by members of parade organizations' riding floats. For tourists and locals alike, throws become the cultural currency of New Orleans during Carnival. Beads, doubloons, coconuts, cups and other throws develop an inherent value, enticing crowds. People esteem throws enough to compete for them, with varying levels of intensity, along parade routes and on the streets of the French Quarter. The purchase of throws by Carnival krewes also brings revenue into New Orleans. …
Assessing Microbial Diversity Through Nucleotide Variation, Ahmet Eren
Assessing Microbial Diversity Through Nucleotide Variation, Ahmet Eren
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Microbes are the most abundant and most diverse form of life on Earth, constituting the largest portion of the total biomass of the entire planet. They are present in every niche in nature, including very extreme environments, and they govern biogeochemical transformations in ecosystems. The human body is home to a diverse assemblage of microbial species as well. In fact, the number of microbial cells in the gastrointestinal tract, oral cavity, skin, airway passages and urogenital system is approximately an order of magnitude greater than the number of cells that make up the human body itself, and changes in the …
Determination Of Harmonics For Modeling Integration Of Solar Generation To The Electric Grid, Ramu Gokarapu
Determination Of Harmonics For Modeling Integration Of Solar Generation To The Electric Grid, Ramu Gokarapu
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this study is to determine a model for analysis of integrating solar generation to the electric grid .The model is then used in determining Harmonics of Integrating solar panels to the electric grid that are based on parallel or series combination of solar cells. To study integration of solar generation to the grid, we have used solar series and solar parallel models in EMTP (Electro Magnetic Transient Program) real time simulation software. When integrating solar generation models to the grid, due to DC to AC conversion and due to variation of solar energy intensity, the electric utility …
Complexation Of Organic Guests And Coordination Of Metal Ions By Cyclodextrins: Role Of Cyclodextrins In Metal-Guest Interactions, Curtis William Jarand
Complexation Of Organic Guests And Coordination Of Metal Ions By Cyclodextrins: Role Of Cyclodextrins In Metal-Guest Interactions, Curtis William Jarand
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Nitroaromatic explosives, such as trinitrotoluene (TNT), are of particular environmental concern due to their recalcitrance in soils and their potent toxicity and mutagenicity to both aquatic and mammalian species. TNT was the most widely used military explosive through the era encompassing both the First and Second World Wars. As a result, there is widespread contamination of soils by TNT around weapons manufacture, testing, and disposal facilities. Fenton chemistry (ferrous ion catalyzed generation of hydroxyl radicals) has shown utility in the remediation of TNT in soils but it suffers from non-specificity and the need for acidic conditions to prevent loss of …
A Study Of The Relationship Between Revenue Sources And Undergraduate Students' Graduation Rates At Public Research Universities, Albertha H. Lawson
A Study Of The Relationship Between Revenue Sources And Undergraduate Students' Graduation Rates At Public Research Universities, Albertha H. Lawson
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The public's demand for accountability will have a significant impact on research universities' revenue resources in the future. Driving the demand is a perceived lack of institutional productivity. Undergraduate students' graduation rates represent one product of public research universities. States have already latched onto these rates as a measure of institutional performance; and as a result, states have provided a basis for public research universities to use the relationship between dollars invested in the institution and undergraduate students' graduation rates to respond to accountability issues. Current research provides little insight into this relationship. Research in this study uses concepts from …
Image Completion: Comparison Of Different Methods And Combination Of Techniques, Lawrence Leblanc
Image Completion: Comparison Of Different Methods And Combination Of Techniques, Lawrence Leblanc
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Image completion is the process of filling missing regions of an image based on the known sections of the image. This technique is useful for repairing damaged images or removing unwanted objects from images. Research on this technique is plentiful. This thesis compares three different approaches to image completion. In addition, a new method is proposed which combines features from two of these algorithms to improve efficiency.
Remolding Mexican Identity: The Wax Art Of Francisco Vargas In 19th Century New Orleans, John Mangipano
Remolding Mexican Identity: The Wax Art Of Francisco Vargas In 19th Century New Orleans, John Mangipano
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
In December of 1915, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported on the death of the patriarch of four generations of Mexican wax figure artists whose artworks demonstrated a century of change in the city of New Orleans. The family's artworks included religious sculptures, representations of indigenous and peasant populations of Mexico, and the merchant populations of the French Quarter. Francisco's artworks represented Louisiana's agriculture at two World's Fairs in New Orleans and Buffalo. Francisco received a contract from Mississippi Commissioner R. H. Henry to produce the 30-foot King Cotton for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase International Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. Though …
Determining Biological Roles Of Four Unique Vernicia Fordii Acyl-Coa Binding Proteins, Steven Pastor
Determining Biological Roles Of Four Unique Vernicia Fordii Acyl-Coa Binding Proteins, Steven Pastor
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
High-value industrial oils are essential for many processes and have great economic and environmental impacts. The tung tree produces a high-value seed oil. Approximately 80% of tung oil is α-eleostearic acid, which has a high degree of unsaturation thus giving it properties as a drying oil. The identification of the biological components in tung is imperative to further the knowledge of its processes. Four unique tung acyl-CoA binding proteins, VfACBP3a, VfACBP3b, VfACBP4, and VfACBP6 were identified and the genes encoding them were cloned and analyzed to determine their biological roles. The VfACBPs were observed to be similar to other organisms' …
Social Context And Muslim Women's Attitudes Towards Counseling, Mevlida Turkes-Habibovic
Social Context And Muslim Women's Attitudes Towards Counseling, Mevlida Turkes-Habibovic
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Although there is a recognized need for counseling Muslims and underutilization of mental health services by this population is assumed, research regarding the attitudes of Muslims towards counseling is scarce. This qualitative study explored Muslim women's attitudes towards counseling and utilization of counseling services. The influence of religiosity and religious coping as well as the Muslim women's perception of the Imam-counselor liaison, and the influence of the liaison on counseling-seeking attitudes have been examined. Participants consisted of 10 purposefully selected Muslim women from each of five distinct socio-racial categories, including White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Arab. Data collection consisted of …
Settlement Analyses Of Grade Supported Tanks Constructed With The Use Of Prefabricated Wick Drains And An Earth Preload, Rebecca Elizabeth Scherer
Settlement Analyses Of Grade Supported Tanks Constructed With The Use Of Prefabricated Wick Drains And An Earth Preload, Rebecca Elizabeth Scherer
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
In the design of tank foundations several design techniques are considered. This study focuses on grade supported tanks constructed under an extensive preload and instrumentation program. Settlement estimation methods were performed and compared to field instrumentation data taken at the project sites. Three project sites were selected for this study. The geotechnical investigations were performed by Eustis Engineering Services, L.L.C. and included both undisturbed soil borings and cone penetrometer tests. Conclusions were made about the accuracy of the calculations and how assumptions affect the settlement computation results.
Trickster's Taxonomy, Matthew Groneman
Trickster's Taxonomy, Matthew Groneman
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Matthew Groneman explores the dynamic nature of language through a series of poems broken into three thematically-linked sections. The first section includes poems about the natural world, scientific processes and technological innovation. The second section is centered around poems exploring American culture, from the nineteenth century to contemporary times. The final section explores the speaker's perceptions of self, particularly with regards to the speaker's masculinity relative to societal expectations thereof. The poems play with concepts of fluid semiotics by employing notions of the trickster as narrator in several poem, disrupting binaries and complicating the nature of meaning. Also utilized toward …
Just Like Ole' Mammy Used To Make: Reinterpreting New Orleans African-American Praline Vendors As Entrepreneurs, Chanda Nunez
Just Like Ole' Mammy Used To Make: Reinterpreting New Orleans African-American Praline Vendors As Entrepreneurs, Chanda Nunez
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Women commonly sold goods on the streets of New Orleans throughout the city‘s colonial and antebellum history. Forming a significant presence among the city‘s market places, they sold various food items which included coffee, calas, and pralines. Perhaps the most popular of the African-American street vendors was the praline women. They attracted the attention of visitors as well as residents. Despite the popularity of these treats, the highly visible and enterprising praline vendors were simultaneously celebrated and caricatured by white observers who depicted them as mammy figures not only in store advertisements and logos, but also in everyday annotations.
Patterns Of Protein Expression In Tissues Of The Killifish, Fundulus Heteroclitus And Fundulus Grandis, Naga Vijayalaxmi Abbaraju
Patterns Of Protein Expression In Tissues Of The Killifish, Fundulus Heteroclitus And Fundulus Grandis, Naga Vijayalaxmi Abbaraju
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Fundulus is a diverse and widespread genus of small teleost fish of North America. Due to its high tolerance for physiochemical variation (e.g. temperature, oxygen, salinity), Fundulus is a model organism to study physiological and molecular adaptations to environmental stress. The thesis focuses on patterns of protein expression in Fundulus heteroclitus and F. grandis.The patterns of protein expression were investigated using traditional methods of enzyme activity measurements and recent proteomic approaches. The findings of the study can be used to guide future studies on the proteomic responses of vertebrates to environmental stress. Chapter 2 focuses on measurement of the temporal …
Smart Grid Technologies For Efficiency Improvement Of Integrated Industrial Electric System, Spandana Balani
Smart Grid Technologies For Efficiency Improvement Of Integrated Industrial Electric System, Spandana Balani
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this research is to identify the need of Smart Grid Technologies in communication between industrial plants with co-generation capability and the electric utilities in providing the most optimum scheme for buying and selling of electricity in such a way that the fuel consumption is minimized, reliability is increased, and time to restore the system is reduced. A typical industrial plant load profile based on statistical mean and variance of industrial plants' load requirement is developed, and used in determining the minimum cost of producing the next megawatt-hours by a typical electric utility. The 24-hour load profile and …
Staging Modernism, Jason Derouin
Staging Modernism, Jason Derouin
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This thesis, which supports an exhibition of visual art, develops from Jean Baudrillard's philosophy of seduction. I have focused on the representation of the bachelor and his pad in American men's magazines from the mid-twentieth century. During this period, magazines such as Playboy, Escapade and Rogue created features on modern living to reassure an independent and affluent man that a dwelling with style and taste would ensure a happy bachelor life and facilitate intimacy. My photographs and collages add complexity to this portrait by framing this unique space as a stage where an unmarried man encircled by his lusty decor …
Essays In Which, For The Most Part, A Militant Nerd Has Fun, Erin Grauel
Essays In Which, For The Most Part, A Militant Nerd Has Fun, Erin Grauel
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Fingers, Jon Gunnar Gylfason
Fingers, Jon Gunnar Gylfason
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Fingers should demonstrate my filmmaking ability and encourage future employers to hire me to direct a project. This paper will explore in details what methods were used during the production with focus on working within the means of the budget. In the following chapters, I will discuss Fingers, including the writing, preproduction, directing, cinematography, editing, and the final product.
A Spectre In Polished Obsidian, Travis Leger
A Spectre In Polished Obsidian, Travis Leger
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The author joins the Peace Corps in the hopes that he will discover who he really is yet he only finds frustration. Upon returning to the States he has a daughter and finds peace. Within this peace, as he types up the life history of a friend, he finally makes a breakthrough, yet the answer he finds is not to his liking.
"Strenuous Life" Strained: Political And Social Survival Strategies Of The New Orleans Athletic Club, 1923-1940, Shawn G. Ryder
"Strenuous Life" Strained: Political And Social Survival Strategies Of The New Orleans Athletic Club, 1923-1940, Shawn G. Ryder
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The New Orleans Athletic Club, founded in 1872, is one of the oldest athletic clubs in the United States that still operates today. After the boom of the 1920s and increased revenues, the club was forced to confront the Great Depression and shift its emphasis on the "strenuous life" to the "social life" to survive. The club had capitalized on the popularity of boxing during the 1920s and just finished constructing a lavish new club house when the stock market crashed in 1929. With members losing their jobs, the popularity of boxing waning, and the club in dire financial straits, …
The Best Doctor, Mary Sparacello
The Best Doctor, Mary Sparacello
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This is a book about the forty-four years my father has spent as a veterinarian. The book begins with his life growing up on a Nebraska farm and describes how he decided to become a veterinarian. I detail some of the most memorable times in his life, such as serving as a veterinarian in the Air Force and starting out in private practice. Readers will be introduced to some of the characters he has met along the way -- both human and animal -- and to controversies in the ever-changing world of veterinary medicine.
Death, Death, I Know Thee Now!' Mourning Jewelry In England And New Orleans In The Nineteenth Century, Joanna Tabony
Death, Death, I Know Thee Now!' Mourning Jewelry In England And New Orleans In The Nineteenth Century, Joanna Tabony
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Descriptions of mourning adornments in England and New Orleans in the nineteenth century are used to argue that many of the customs of mourning in England -- the designs, themes, and materials -- also were present in New Orleans. This study draws from these observations and sources to suggest that mourning practices involving jewelry and costume became more functional and less formal in both England and New Orleans as the century progressed, while French customs retained and even grew in complexity. The high level of trade between Britain and New Orleans during the nineteenth century, reflected in the jewelry and …
Tools Of Ignorance, Nicholas Mainieri
Tools Of Ignorance, Nicholas Mainieri
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Marshall Carby's An Experiment With An Air Pump, Marshall Carby
Marshall Carby's An Experiment With An Air Pump, Marshall Carby
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Using Joseph Wright's painting, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump as an inspirational starting point, Shelagh Stephenson's An Experiment with an Air Pump explores the depth of human existence using universal conflicts such as: morals versus ethics, science versus God and right versus wrong. Since the play's premiere in 1998, it has provided a forum for hot button topics such as stem cell research, abortion, and scientific experimentation. The University of New Orleans' production not only presented the issues in the play, it strives to be an example of theatrical excellence, challenge and engage both the company …
Parses: A Pipeline For Analysis Of Rna-Sequencing Exogenous Sequences, Joseph Coco
Parses: A Pipeline For Analysis Of Rna-Sequencing Exogenous Sequences, Joseph Coco
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
RNA-Sequencing (RNA-Seq) has become one of the most widely used techniques to interrogate the transcriptome of an organism since the advent of next generation sequencing technologies [1]. A plethora of tools have been developed to analyze and visualize the transcriptome data from RNA-Seq experiments, solving the problem of mapping reads back to the host organism's genome [2] [3]. This allows for analysis of most reads produced by the experiments, but these tools typically discard reads that do not match well with the reference genome. This additional information could reveal important insight into the experiment and possible contributing factors to the …
Counselor Perceptions Of The Efficacy Of Training And Implementation Of Self-Care Strategies Related To Trauma Work, Leslie Midtbo Culver
Counselor Perceptions Of The Efficacy Of Training And Implementation Of Self-Care Strategies Related To Trauma Work, Leslie Midtbo Culver
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Various forms of trauma are regularly reported across the spectrum of counseling settings and the potential negative psychological effects on counselors who are repeatedly exposed to traumatic material are well documented. However, many researchers suggest that vicarious traumatization can be prevented and mitigated with personal and professional self-care strategies. The American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of Ethics indicates that counselors have a professional responsibility to engage in self-care activities, as efforts to ensure the psychological health of counselors will have a direct effect on their ability to help clients. The purpose of this mixed-method, descriptive, correlational research was to explore …
Dual Tense, Robyn M. Denny
Dual Tense, Robyn M. Denny
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is a description and analysis of work I produced at the University of New Orleans during my Graduate studies. My work centers on the theme of tension, human interaction, and the vulnerability and dominance of those interactions. I create paintings, drawings, and prints to articulate my theme of tension. These works of art are meant to describe the feeling of tension through my mark making.
Streets Of Justice? Civil Rights Commemorative Boulevards And The Struggle For Revitalization In African American Communities: A Case Study Of Central City, New Orleans, Joel A. Devalcourt
Streets Of Justice? Civil Rights Commemorative Boulevards And The Struggle For Revitalization In African American Communities: A Case Study Of Central City, New Orleans, Joel A. Devalcourt
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Civil rights commemorative boulevards are an increasingly important method of framing African American community revitalization and persistent historical inequities. Often underlying planning efforts to revitalize segregated African American neighborhoods, these boulevards are one important change mechanism for realizing equitable development and challenging structural racism. This thesis demonstrates the central importance of these commemorative boulevards in framing redevelopment and maintaining community resolve during the long struggle for revitalization