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Development Of A Simulation Model For Fluidized Bed Mild Gasifier, Akm Monayem Hossain Mazumder
Development Of A Simulation Model For Fluidized Bed Mild Gasifier, Akm Monayem Hossain Mazumder
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
A mild gasification method has been developed to provide an innovative clean coal technology. The objective of this study is to developed a numerical model to investigate the thermal-flow and gasification process inside a specially designed fluidized-bed mild gasifier using the commercial CFD solver ANSYS/FLUENT. Eulerain-Eulerian method is employed to calculate both the primary phase (air) and secondary phase (coal particles). The Navier-Stokes equations and seven species transport equations are solved with three heterogeneous (gas-solid), two homogeneous (gas-gas) global gasification reactions. Development of the model starts from simulating single-phase turbulent flow and heat transfer to understand the thermal-flow behavior followed …
A Phenomenological Study To Describe The Pursuit Of A Baccalaureate Degree In Nursing By Associate Degree Registered Nurses, Marie Adorno
A Phenomenological Study To Describe The Pursuit Of A Baccalaureate Degree In Nursing By Associate Degree Registered Nurses, Marie Adorno
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
An associate degree in nursing is obtained in the community college setting and is designed to be completed in 2 years of full-time study. Approximately 70% of practicing registered nurses (RNs) are educated at the associate degree or diploma (vocational training) level with only 15% moving on to achieve a degree past the associate level. The purpose of this phenomenological research is to study the lived experiences of registered nurses who obtained an associate degree in nursing and, while working in a health care setting, returned to school to attain a baccalaureate degree in nursing (BSN). Data gathered during individual …
Posters, Politics And Immigration During The May 1968 Protests In France, Sara Mcnamara
Posters, Politics And Immigration During The May 1968 Protests In France, Sara Mcnamara
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
How were immigrants, immigrant issues and their histories represented through radical poster art created during the 1968 protests and strikes in France? The May 1968 protests remain one of the most significant moments in contemporary French history and it occurred during a time when immigrant populations were rapidly increasing. There is a multitude of research, analysis and reflections on the protests and strikes; yet there is very little mention of the place of immigrants during this event. Art collectives that were created during the protests designed and produced posters that later became a symbol of the strike. By using a …
The Use Of Experiential Groups In The Training Of Group Workers: Student Attitudes And Instructor Participation, Pierre Betsy St. Pierre
The Use Of Experiential Groups In The Training Of Group Workers: Student Attitudes And Instructor Participation, Pierre Betsy St. Pierre
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Both the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs (CACREP) and the Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW) require counselor education programs to provide experiential training to group workers (CACREP, 2009; ASGW, 2000). However, no specific models are given to counselor educators to implement the experiential component. Only two research studies have examined the overall structure and type of instructor involvement commonly used in counselor training programs (Anderson & Price, 2001; Merta, Wolfgang, & McNeil, 1993). In addition, researchers have documented ethical concerns in the use of experiential training methods (Davenport, 2004; Furr & Barret, 2000; Riva …
Coupling Targeting And Community Land Trusts: A Comprehensive Strategy For Revitalizing The Oretha Castle Haley Corridor And Central City, Alexis Leventhal
Coupling Targeting And Community Land Trusts: A Comprehensive Strategy For Revitalizing The Oretha Castle Haley Corridor And Central City, Alexis Leventhal
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Since Hurricane Katrina, targeting redevelopment has become the dominant municipal strategy for neighborhood and city-wide revitalization. Since 2009, this strategy has been adopted and is currently being implemented by the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority in several New Orleans neighborhoods. One such area includes the commercial corridor of the Central City neighborhood, Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard (OC Haley). This thesis describes and assesses NORA‘s strategy for revitalizing OC Haley with regards to impacts on Central City‘s economic development and affordable housing—two of the area‘s greatest challenges. Although NORA‘s targeting strategy is proving effective in many respects, it is not without its …
Alternative Literacies, Resistance, And Spatial Representations In The Do-It-Yourself (Diy) Culture Of Zine Publication In New Orleans, Nathan Jessee
Alternative Literacies, Resistance, And Spatial Representations In The Do-It-Yourself (Diy) Culture Of Zine Publication In New Orleans, Nathan Jessee
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Zines are small circulation media that amateurs make and distribute. Inspired by both the lack of ethnographic research on the do-it-yourself (DIY) culture of zine-making in urban studies and the growing interest in ethnographically oriented research in literacy studies, rhetoric, and linguistics this research explores the people, places, and practices behind zine publication in New Orleans, Louisiana through participant observation at two specialized loci—the Iron Rail and punk shows—as well as semi-structured interviews with people who make, distribute, and consume zines. This research argues that zine-makers use zines to reinterpret urban space in search of an authentic relationship with the …
Experimental And Computational Investigation Of Thermal-Flow Characteristics Of Gas Turbine Reverse-Flow Combustor, Liang Wang
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Reverse-flow combustors have been used in heavy land-based gas turbines for many decades. A sheath is typically installed to provide cooling at an expense of large pressure losses, through small jet impingement cooling and strong forced convention channel flow. With the modern advancement in metallurgy and thermal-barrier coating technologies, it may become possible to remove this sheath to recover the pressure losses without melting the combustor chamber. However, without the sheath, the flow inside the dump diffuser may exert nonuniform cooling on the combustion chamber. Therefore, the objective of this project is to investigate the flow pattern, pressure drop, and …
Assessing School Neighborhood Walkability: A Targeted Approach To Safe Routes To School Programming, Chelsea O. Shelling
Assessing School Neighborhood Walkability: A Targeted Approach To Safe Routes To School Programming, Chelsea O. Shelling
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This thesis intends to demonstrate how capital infrastructure investments can be targeted objectively, using the "Safe Routes to School" (SRTS) program for context. SRTS impacts physical activity, a determinant of childhood obesity by encouraging children’s regular active transportation use. This thesis supports the widespread implementation of SRTS and has developed the "Shelling Model" to objectively identify schools for programming. Accordingly, the "Shelling Model" aims to objectively identify physical and socio-economic environment variables impacting HISD-E middle school neighborhoods’ walkability. The "Shelling Model" is a first step in creating a walkability index for which pedestrian orientation levels can be identified and schools …
A Tale Of Two Silos: Collaborative School Facility Planning In Post-Katrina New Orleans, Lauren Mikulak
A Tale Of Two Silos: Collaborative School Facility Planning In Post-Katrina New Orleans, Lauren Mikulak
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Cities and schools are traditionally planned in separate silos by local governments and school boards. Collaborative school facility planning (CSP) unites these two silos and integrates decision-making by city and school entities. This research addresses the relationship between urban planning and school facility planning in New Orleans, Louisiana, where CSP is particularly important in light of rebuilding efforts since Hurricane Katrina. The researcher examines the extent, challenges, and opportunities for CSP in New Orleans. Based on interviews and recent planning texts, little collaboration existed in the past; but the decommissioning of 52 New Orleans public school facilities presents an unmistakable …
Community College Funding And Its Association To Nontraditional Students, Girard Melancon
Community College Funding And Its Association To Nontraditional Students, Girard Melancon
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The funding of community and technical colleges has been a major topic of discussion in many states because community and technical colleges are critical for states' economic development and talent development strategies. The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between the type of funding at community and technical colleges in southeastern states and their nontraditional student enrollment trends. The researcher investigated the growth of community and technical college enrollment by analyzing southeastern United States community and technical colleges' part-time 25 to 44 year-old undergraduate enrollment rates for the years of 1995, 2000 and 2005, and how the …
Petrology And Geochemical Evolution Of The East Hill Suite Of The Mont Saint-Hilaire Alkaline Plutonic Complex, Peter Tice
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The Mont Saint-Hilaire alkaline complex, Québec, is a Cretaceous rift-related intrusion comprising two gabbroic suites and the East Hill suite, an assemblage of several distinct nepheline syenites and evolved syenitic rocks. Whole-rock analysis of the East Hill suite reveals two fractionation trends, one which is described by the syenitic lithologies and one by the evolved syenites and syenoids. A lamprophyric unit stands on its own, geochemically, consistent with typical lamprophyre petrogenesis. Whole-rock geochemistry of the East Hill suite shows moderate silica content but highly alkaline rocks, enriched in Mn, Zn, Zr, Y, and Ce. Chlorine and sulfur are important and …
Investigation Of Neotectonic Activity Within The Shallow, Unconsolidated Stratigraphy Of The Pearl River Delta Area, Louisiana, Dane Fischer
Investigation Of Neotectonic Activity Within The Shallow, Unconsolidated Stratigraphy Of The Pearl River Delta Area, Louisiana, Dane Fischer
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
During the last half century researchers have suggested that active deformation driven by neotectonic activity has locally influenced areas of southeastern Louisiana in the form of wetland loss and coastal erosion. This study, within the Pearl River Delta Area of Louisiana, applied geomorphologic and stratigraphic methods of analysis to assess whether evidence of recent fault motion is present within the shallow, unconsolidated Holocene strata of the study area. Geomorphological historical change analyses focused on meander patterns, elongated water bodies and spatial changes in vegetation identify areas where fault motion may have recently occurred. The shallow stratigraphy was then investigated in …
School Choice: The Black Middle-Class Dilemma, Alan Delery
School Choice: The Black Middle-Class Dilemma, Alan Delery
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This case study assesses the elementary school choice decision-making process of black middle-class families living in the Algiers community of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. The concept of community has been central to the success of blacks in America since Reconstruction. However, as the Civil Rights Movement helped eliminate some of the legal obstacles facing blacks and provided them with more access to opportunities, it also had the unfortunate consequence of redirecting the attention of blacks more inwardly to the success of their own families, thus diminishing some of the formerly needed sense of community responsibility. These families are not …
The Interaction Of Pain And Morphine On Analgesia, Locomotion, And Cognitive Functioning, Brandon Baiamonte
The Interaction Of Pain And Morphine On Analgesia, Locomotion, And Cognitive Functioning, Brandon Baiamonte
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Opioid medications are medicine's best weapon against severe intractable pain, but prolonged use of these medications can be complicated by side effects like tolerance and mental clouding which, themselves, can be disabling. The present study examined the independent and combined effects of inflammatory pain and opioid medication on spatial memory for a well learned task in Sprague-Dawley rats. The Hargreaves method was used to verify the pain state of the animals after complete Freund's adjuvant injection and morphine treatment. Whereas pain had little effect on spatial memory, morphine had profound detrimental effects that persisted beyond the analgesic effectiveness of the …
Indicators For Minimizing Energy Consumption And Ghg Emissions At Wastewater Treatment Facilities, Naveen Kumar Devata
Indicators For Minimizing Energy Consumption And Ghg Emissions At Wastewater Treatment Facilities, Naveen Kumar Devata
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Wastewater treatment facilities around the world use significant amount of energy which contributes to large quantities of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. According to the U.S.EPA, nearly 3% of the USA's energy is used to treat wastewater. This consumption is increasing at faster rates with increase in population and regulations. Wastewater facilities use large number of pumps in their transfer stations, treatment plants, and effluent pump stations. All these pumps consume considerable amounts of energy. This study presents a preliminary energy inspection of two facilities from Louisiana. This audit provides an inventory of the energy consumed for various activities like pumping, …
Creation, Verification, And Validation Of A Panel Code For The Analysis Of Ship Propellers In A Steady, Uniform Wake, Stephen Gregory Jennings
Creation, Verification, And Validation Of A Panel Code For The Analysis Of Ship Propellers In A Steady, Uniform Wake, Stephen Gregory Jennings
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This report describes the governing equation and boundary conditions for a marine propeller operating in a uniform flow field of inviscid and irrotational fluid. A method is presented by which the velocity and pressure on the blade surface of the propeller can be numerically simulated, using hyperboloidal, constant strength source and doublet panels. Accuracy of the numerical method is verified through comparison with analytically known results and the ability of the numerical simulation to predict the thrust and torque on a propeller in open water is assessed through comparison with published experimental results. The thrust and torque results for the …
Application Of Dirichlet Distribution For Polytopic Model Estimation, Jaipal Katkuri
Application Of Dirichlet Distribution For Polytopic Model Estimation, Jaipal Katkuri
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The polytopic model (PM) structure is often used in the areas of automatic control and fault detection and isolation (FDI). It is an alternative to the multiple model approach which explicitly allows for interpolation among local models. This thesis proposes a novel approach to PM estimation by modeling the set of PM weights as a random vector with Dirichlet Distribution (DD). A new approximate (adaptive) PM estimator, referred to as a Quasi-Bayesian Adaptive Kalman Filter (QBAKF) is derived and implemented. The model weights and state estimation in the QBAKF is performed adaptively by a simple QB weights' estimator and a …
Culture For Sale: An Ethnographic Study Of Commodification At The Westwego Shrimp Lot Of Louisiana, Rachael Wissing
Culture For Sale: An Ethnographic Study Of Commodification At The Westwego Shrimp Lot Of Louisiana, Rachael Wissing
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This study examines the marketing strategies employed by vendors at the Westwego shrimp lot in Westwego, Louisiana. Given the fluctuating market conditions and rising costs of seafood production, seafood vendors in the Gulf Coast region must look continuously for new ways to market their product as a cultural commodity. This thesis argues that shrimp becomes a cultural commodity at the Westwego shrimp lot, and that through marketing strategies, vendors at the Westwego shrimp lot both resist and accept certain aspects of globalization. The presence of imports, a presence that emerges in the context of globalization, poses a large threat to …
The Role Of American Elites In The New Courthouse Building Project: Progressive-Era Ideologies In The Vieux Carre, Kelly Cottrell
The Role Of American Elites In The New Courthouse Building Project: Progressive-Era Ideologies In The Vieux Carre, Kelly Cottrell
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
At the turn of the twentieth century, City Beautiful principles manifested themselves in the historic core of New Orleans: the Vieux Carre. City and state officials determined that the Cabildo and Presbytere were no longer suitable sites for the Louisiana Supreme Courts, and set about erecting a monumental, Beaux Arts-style courthouse amid the dense, vernacular built environment of the French Quarter. Two hundred fifty-one individuals were displaced as a result of the expropriation and demolition of forty-one structures occupying the square bounded Royal, Chartres, Conti and St. Louis streets. While significant scholarly research has interpreted the motives and visions of …
The Distribution Of Cotton Fiber Length, Rachid Belmasrour
The Distribution Of Cotton Fiber Length, Rachid Belmasrour
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
By testing a fiber beard, certain cotton fiber length parameters can be obtained rapidly. This is the method used by the High Volume Instrument (HVI). This study is aimed to explore the approaches and obtain the inference of length distributions of HVI beard sam- ples in order to develop new methods that can help us find the distribution of original fiber lengths and further improve HVI length measurements. At first, the mathematical functions were searched for describing three different types of length distributions related to the beard method as used in HVI: cotton fiber lengths of the original fiber population …
Toward A Theory Of Female Subjectivity, Dimitra Cupo
Toward A Theory Of Female Subjectivity, Dimitra Cupo
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Poststructuralist accounts of gender provide a useful theoretical space to unpack the workings of power and domination as they structure the organization of our language, representations, concepts, and discourse in general. One significant flaw of this theory is a failure to adequately account for the social realm of embodied individuals, social interactions, and interpretive moments. In this paper, I offer conventional femininity as a particular type of gendered habitus that highlights this theoretical flaw as it necessarily links what is promising and useful about poststructuralist accounts of gender with the physical, social, interactive, and interpretive everyday lives of women.
A Blue-Green Divide? Elite And Mass Partisan Dynamics In Taiwan, Hung Chung Wang
A Blue-Green Divide? Elite And Mass Partisan Dynamics In Taiwan, Hung Chung Wang
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation aims to investigate the bases of partisan differentiation and degree of polarization since Taiwan's 2000 presidential election. By employing American concepts and theories of partisan polarization, I analyze Taiwan's party politics at both the elite and mass levels. At the elite level, I examine whether inter‐party antagonism has become more intense in Taiwan's legislature and what types of issues contribute most to party conflict since 2000. At the mass level, I examine public perceptions of the parties, analyze whether any political issues divide the Taiwanese public along partisan lines, and explore the social and demographic bases of partisan …
Mact Implementation At An Organic Chemical Manufacturing Facility: Human Health Risk Reduction, Keith Gordon
Mact Implementation At An Organic Chemical Manufacturing Facility: Human Health Risk Reduction, Keith Gordon
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Human health risk assessments are used by environmental regulatory agencies to determine risk from Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs). In this study, the Human Exposure Model (HEM-3) was used to compare the cancer and non-cancer inhalation health effects of a single organic chemical manufacturing facility in Geismar, Louisiana prior to and after Maximum Achievable Control Technologies (MACT) were implemented. The results indicate significant reductions in both cancer risk and non-cancer hazards. The analysis also indicated that the equivalent cancer risk reduction could have been achieved by addressing MACT in only one production process and one single pollutant (ethylene dichloride) within that …
Bicycle Season, Kevin Thomas Hughes
Bicycle Season, Kevin Thomas Hughes
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
In this paper I will thoroughly analyze the thesis film, Bicycle Season, as it relates to specific areas of film production. The goal is to determine the effectiveness of specific approaches to narrative filmmaking, when the intention of the narrative to portray believable human behavior in moments of dramatic conflict. I will discuss this thesis from the point of conception on a screenwriting level; analyze the steps along the way as they relate to film production, and conclude at the point of final screening to an audience. Direct feedback from audience members in test screenings will serve as a measurement …
Corner Culture: Corner Stores In The Black Pearl Neighborhood Of New Orleans, Andrea Mccarthy
Corner Culture: Corner Stores In The Black Pearl Neighborhood Of New Orleans, Andrea Mccarthy
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The corner store represents a significant part of New Orleans' history and neighborhoods. From essential grocery providers to bars and restaurants full of local character, these buildings have held a number of roles in the community. These roles have changed in response to development patterns, market pressures, and land-use regulation. A number of these traditional businesses still exist today as neighborhood cultural institutions throughout the city. Many more, however, have faced conversions to residential buildings, abandonment, or demolition. This case study addresses the significance of the corner store, identifies a number of factors leading to its decline, and suggests that …
Volunteerism In Crisis: Americorps As Disaster Response, Emily Danielson
Volunteerism In Crisis: Americorps As Disaster Response, Emily Danielson
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
AmeriCorps, the federal volunteer program developed in 1993, has won increasing political and cultural support since its development. Hurricane Katrina challenged program administrators to recruit and support volunteers in New Orleans, a uniquely devastated city. This qualitative study based on interviews with former volunteers examines the implications of AmeriCorps program policies for the recovery of postKatrina New Orleans. Rooted in statements by the United Nations, the Federal Emergency Response Agency and local grassroots organizations, this study concludes that the AmeriCorps program was not effective in facilitating the return of displaced residents, appropriately utilizing city resources or maintaining strong accountability to …
Ice Cream, You Scream, Erik Shaun Reuter
Ice Cream, You Scream, Erik Shaun Reuter
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
I set out to make a lighthearted comedy punctuated with some scary moments. I wanted this story to come from a seven-year-old girl's point of view and match fantastic visuals with equally fantastic sounds. I will discuss the entire creative process in this book such as preproduction, writing, direction, cinematography, editing, and the sound design process, as well as many of my own personal experiences on this set and in my life. I have included the influence of unbiased audience members to determine whether or not I was successful in making a competent movie. This entire process, including all of …
Late Quaternary Mississippi River Incised Valley Fill: Transgressive Depositional Packages, Scott Wessels
Late Quaternary Mississippi River Incised Valley Fill: Transgressive Depositional Packages, Scott Wessels
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
A series of USACE atlas quadrangles and dee pborings from the USGS and LGS with radiocarbon dated peats were used to construct several regional crosssections and paleogeographic reconstructions. Late Pleistocene glaciation and consequent lowered sea leve lresulted in reentrenchment of the Mississippi River incised valley. Meltwater floods from proglacial lakes incised into older deposits followed by braided fluvial (substratum) aggradation due to reduced carrying capacity after floods followed by meandering fluvial(topstratum aggradation as fluvial gradients and discharge decreased. Rapidly rising sea level prevented development of shelf phase deltas prior to~10ka. Attenuated rates of sea level rise and periodic avulsions led …
Gender Inequality And Terrorism: An Analysis Of The Effects Of Socioeconomic Gender Inequality On Terrorism, Jennifer Dumas
Gender Inequality And Terrorism: An Analysis Of The Effects Of Socioeconomic Gender Inequality On Terrorism, Jennifer Dumas
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Studies of terrorism have explored a number of factors thought to drive the phenomenon. Authors often tie socioeconomic development to reducing terrorism. Among structural explanations of terrorism, however, authors generally neglect the effect of gender inequality, though studies show that gender inequality increases the risk of international and civil conflict. Therefore I explore the impact of gender inequality in important socioeconomic issues on terrorism for 143 countries from 1998-2009. I argue that socioeconomic gender inequality reflects poor state capacity, resulting in grievances that contribute to domestic non-suicide and suicide terrorism. I study gender inequality in the areas of education, labor …
On Dimensionality Reduction Of Data, Harika Rao Vamulapalli
On Dimensionality Reduction Of Data, Harika Rao Vamulapalli
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Random projection method is one of the important tools for the dimensionality reduction of data which can be made efficient with strong error guarantees. In this thesis, we focus on linear transforms of high dimensional data to the low dimensional space satisfying the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma. In addition, we also prove some theoretical results relating to the projections that are of interest when applying them in practical applications. We show how the technique can be applied to synthetic data with probabilistic guarantee on the pairwise distance. The connection between dimensionality reduction and compressed sensing is also discussed.