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Steel Magnolias: An Actor Directs, Michael Ashley Harkins
Steel Magnolias: An Actor Directs, Michael Ashley Harkins
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is an endeavor to accurately document and define my actor coaching process as a director through Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias. The following chapters contain a record of the development of my actor coaching process in this production, including character & actor analysis, a rehearsal log that provides a daily track of my progress, and an evaluation of the process and resulting performance.
Recursive Loops, Joseph Makkos
Recursive Loops, Joseph Makkos
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
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Experiment Station Road, Gwen Mansfield
Experiment Station Road, Gwen Mansfield
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Experiment Station Road is an original work of fiction serving as a collection of short stories set in Hayford, Oregon and Las Vegas in 1962-1972. Each story presents the point of view of a resident in Hayford. The stories are written to function independently, but when read as a collection present insight to cultural diversity, intricate relationships and the ignorance of prejudice.
Shades Of Fine, Nicole Mcclelland
Shades Of Fine, Nicole Mcclelland
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The following is a collection of personal essays that re-create and reflect on select events that occurred in my life between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four.
Turn: Essays On Growing Up, Lauren R. Rice
Turn: Essays On Growing Up, Lauren R. Rice
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Turn is a collection of personal essays that loosely focus on what it means to become an adult. The topics of the essays range from crushes to dog walking, from weddings to working at a New Orleans snoball stand. The essays deal with how much more complicated the world turned out to be than as a child I expected.
Reassessment Of A Community Mitigation Plan Post-Disaster: A Case Study Of The University Of New Orleans Disaster Resistant University Project, Ashley Garrett
Reassessment Of A Community Mitigation Plan Post-Disaster: A Case Study Of The University Of New Orleans Disaster Resistant University Project, Ashley Garrett
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The following is a case study of the University of New Orleans Disaster Resistant University project. The Disaster Resistant University project involved the creation, adoption, and implementation of an all-hazards campus mitigation plan. On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina struck the City of New Orleans. This disaster caused the need for a reassessment of the original campus mitigation plan. Both the original plan, and its reassessment, are the subject of this case study.
Reducing The Hot Spot Effect In Wireless Sensor Networks With The Use Of Mobile Data Sink, Yacine Chikhi
Reducing The Hot Spot Effect In Wireless Sensor Networks With The Use Of Mobile Data Sink, Yacine Chikhi
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The Hot Spot effect is an issue that reduces the network lifetime considerably. The network on the field forms a tree structure in which the sink represents the root and the furthest nodes in the perimeter represent the leaves. Each node collects information from the environment and transmits data packets to a "reachable" node towards the sink in a multi-hop fashion. The closest nodes to the sink not only transmit their own packets but also the packets that they receive from "lower" nodes and therefore exhaust their energy reserves and die faster than the rest of the network sensors. We …
The Role Of Venture Capitalists In Monitoring Portfolio Companies, Khaled Khalil Abdou
The Role Of Venture Capitalists In Monitoring Portfolio Companies, Khaled Khalil Abdou
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Does the role played by venture capitalists add value to their portfolio companies? How do they add value? What are the characteristics of those venture capitalists? Does financial leverage matter for VC-backed companies? All of these questions are researched in this dissertation. The manuscript specifically explores two cases. The first is the role of U.S. venture capitalists after the IPO of their troubled portfolio companies, while the second examines the role of venture capitalists in international investments. The findings detailed in the first part of the study show that a higher level of monitoring and involvement is a significant factor …
A Study Of Carasaurus' (Dinosaura: Sauropodomorph) Torso And Its Biomechanical Implications, Jacqueline Mary Wood
A Study Of Carasaurus' (Dinosaura: Sauropodomorph) Torso And Its Biomechanical Implications, Jacqueline Mary Wood
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Physical examination of the articulations between the dorsal vertebrae and the dorsal ribs of the sauropod dinosaur Camarasaurus (Upper Cretaceous, Wyoming or whatever) shows that the dorsal vertebral column has a slight double curve and the torso is more narrow and volumetrically smaller than previously reconstructed. The shape of the dorsal vertebrae series was based upon the position of the zygopophyses and centrum spacing. The dorsal ribs were placed on the vertebrae based upon the position of tuberculum/diapophysis, capitulum/parapophysis, and the lateral edge of the rib head. Comparisons between the articulated torso of Camarasaurus and extant relatives allowed for the …
Maternal And Temperamental Influences On Children's Emotion Regulation, Scott Mirabile
Maternal And Temperamental Influences On Children's Emotion Regulation, Scott Mirabile
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Toddler-aged children are expected to shift from being solely dependent on parents to regulate their emotion (e.g., Fox & Calkins, 2003) to being able to independently regulate their emotions (Calkins & Johnson, 1998). Mothers' responses to children's negative emotions are expected to influence this development. Children's temperamental negative reactivity was found to moderate the effect of mothers' socialization attempts on children's regulatory behaviors, as suggested by previous theoretical and empirical work (e.g., Putnam, Sanson, & Rothbart, 2002; Rothbart & Bates, 1998). Specifically, highly negatively reactive children showed no correspondence between their mothers' attention-shifting strategies and their own attentionshifting regulation behaviors. …
The Role Of Connexin36 In Dopamine D1/D2 Synergism And Its Breakdown In Transgenic Mice, Eileen Nolan
The Role Of Connexin36 In Dopamine D1/D2 Synergism And Its Breakdown In Transgenic Mice, Eileen Nolan
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Most behavioral, physiological and cellular effects of theneurotransmitter dopamine require concomitant activation of both D1 and D2 receptors, a phenomenon referred to as D1/D2 synergism. Since D1 and D2 receptors are located mostly on separate neurons, and since D1/D2 synergism occurs in the absence of action potentials, we have suggested that electrotonic coupling via gap junctions plays an important role in this phenomenon. A major constituent of gap junctions is connexin36 (Cx36), a protein that is abundant in neurons. The role Cx36 in D1/D2 synergism, as manifested behaviorally, was studied here in mice genetically engineered to express normal, reduced, or …
Designing A Method For Measuring Magnetoresistance Of Nanostructures, Donald Scherer
Designing A Method For Measuring Magnetoresistance Of Nanostructures, Donald Scherer
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The ultimate intent of this research program is to produce nanosized magnetic tunneling junctions, and to study the physical properties of such devices. The physical phenomena of nanosized tunneling junctions are significantly different than that of currently popular micro-sized junctions. There is a considerable amount of work that must be done prior to producing these new junctions to ensure that good measurements can be carried out once the structures have been built. This thesis describes the efforts taken to design a measurement platform that will accurately measure tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) in nanosized Magneto-tunneling Junctions (MTJ). The testing done with this …
50%-50% Beam Splitters Using Transparent Substrates Coated By Single- Or Double-Layer Quarter-Wave Thin Films, Faisal Sudradjat
50%-50% Beam Splitters Using Transparent Substrates Coated By Single- Or Double-Layer Quarter-Wave Thin Films, Faisal Sudradjat
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
A pair of light beams that have orthogonal polarizations and equal intensity can be generated through reflection and refraction of a monochromatic light at a dielectric surface. Sytematic procedures to design beam splitters which can produce such output light beams are described in this thesis. Two designs that are of particular interest are prismatic substrates coated by a single layer and a double layer of thin films. Specific examples of each beam splitter in the visible and infrared are included. The performance of each beam splitter as a function of incidence angle, film thickness, and wavelength is also discussed.
A Content-Based Image Retrieval System For Fish Taxonomy, Fei Teng
A Content-Based Image Retrieval System For Fish Taxonomy, Fei Teng
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
It is estimated that less than ten percent of the world's species have been discovered and described. The main reason for the slow pace of new species description is that the science of taxonomy, as traditionally practiced, can be very laborious: taxonomists have to manually gather and analyze data from large numbers of specimens and identify the smallest subset of external body characters that uniquely diagnoses the new species as distinct from all its known relatives. The pace of data gathering and analysis can be greatly increased by the information technology. In this paper, we propose a content-based image retrieval …
Rites Of Passage: The Role Of Induction In The Enculturation Of Beginning Teachers, Linda Blakley
Rites Of Passage: The Role Of Induction In The Enculturation Of Beginning Teachers, Linda Blakley
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Researchers have reported that by the year 2010, two million teachers will be needed in classrooms across the country. The shortage has been attributed to population increases and a rise in the number of teacher retirements. Other researchers contend that the shortage is due to rising attrition rates among new teachers. They claim that new teachers become dissatisfied with teaching due to poor working conditions. As a result, new teachers have prematurely departed the teaching profession in alarming numbers which has placed the educational system at large in a state of crisis. This dissertation examined the factors which impacted the …
A Comparison Of Body Composition Between Eumenorrheic And Amenorrheic Adolescent Cross-Country Runners, Marc Bonis
A Comparison Of Body Composition Between Eumenorrheic And Amenorrheic Adolescent Cross-Country Runners, Marc Bonis
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship and comparisons of athletic amenorrhea and bone mineral density in adolescent, cross-country runners. Subjects: Twenty-eight female adolescent cross-country runners (Mean Age + SD = 15.0 + 1.3 years); consisting of seventeen eumenorrheics & eleven amenorrheics. Design: The design consisted of a sixmonth longitudinal design in which the subjects were measured before and after cross-country season for height, weight, and lean tissue (LT), body fat (BF), bone mineral content (BMC), and bone mineral density (BMD) using whole-body scan densitiometry with a Lunar Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometer (DXA). Run performance, weekly training volumes, …
The Relationship Of Supervisors' Attachment Styles To Their Perceptions Of Self-Efficacy In Providing Corrective Feedback And To The Working Alliance In Counselor Education, Matthew Day
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Supervisors are largely responsible for the structuring of supervision in counseling, which is influenced by various factors pertaining to a supervisor, all of which greatly affect the development of the counselor trainee. This study was designed to explore the factors of attachment styles, self-efficacy for giving corrective feedback and the dimensions of the working alliance. The results will ultimately inform counselor educators and supervisors about the practice of supervision and the implications of supervisors’ attachment styles in counselor supervision.
Exploration Of The Socialization Process Of Female Leaders In Counselor Education, Lea Randle Flowers
Exploration Of The Socialization Process Of Female Leaders In Counselor Education, Lea Randle Flowers
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Higher education literature, has several contributions that pertain to mentoring styles in academia, female faculty, gender and leadership, and recruitment and retention of women and minorities in academia. However, specific references that lend voice to the experiences of female counselor educators in the context of their career paths and patterns are scant(Hill, Leinbaugh, Bradley,& Hazler, 2005). This qualitative investigation explored the socialization process of 8 female leaders in counselor education from throughout the United States utilizing grounded theory methods. The primary theme of socialization was organized into three main categories, (a) childhood socialization, (b) anticipatory socialization (Van Mannen, 1976), and …
Voices Behind Bars: Correctional Education From The Perspective Of The Prisoner Student, Renee Hall
Voices Behind Bars: Correctional Education From The Perspective Of The Prisoner Student, Renee Hall
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Approximately two million men and women are currently incarcerated in the nation's penitentiaries. Ninety percent of these inmates will eventually be released from prison. There is a need for prisons to provide services that will prepare these men and women for successful reentry into society. These services include education and vocational training. To determine the effectiveness of education/training, the perspective of the prisoner student is key to the field of correctional education. The voice of the prisoner student, however, is absent from the literature on prisoner education. This qualitative study examined the thoughts, feelings, experiences, and plans/goals of prisoner students …
At The Confluence Of Science And Power: Water Struggles Of New Orleans In The Nineteenth Century, Carolyn Kolb
At The Confluence Of Science And Power: Water Struggles Of New Orleans In The Nineteenth Century, Carolyn Kolb
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
New Orleans failed to solve its water infrastructure problems in the nineteenth century because a shifting locus of power in a variable political and financial environment hampered wise decision making, while technology choices were limited by contemporary knowledge, scientists' ignorance, or by technicians' poor presentation skills for new ideas. And, selection was often governed by prejudice: personal, racial, or against technology. New Orleans was able to deal with its water difficulties only when those with the power to make or influence decisions had an available technology capable of handling the problem and they chose to use it. Power and science …
Thermodynamics Of Buried Water In Protein Cavities And Revised Algorithms For Introducing Polarizability To Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Lisa Renee Olano
Thermodynamics Of Buried Water In Protein Cavities And Revised Algorithms For Introducing Polarizability To Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Lisa Renee Olano
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Free energy calculations for the transfer of a water molecule from the pure liquid to an interior cavity site in a protein are presented. Three different protein cavities, in bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI), the I106A mutant of lysozyme, and in the I76A mutant of barnase, represent very different environments for the water molecule, one which is polar, forming four water-protein hydrogen bonds, and two which are more hydrophobic, only forming one or two water-protein hydrogen bonds. The calculations give very different free energies for the different cavities, with only the polar BPTI cavity predicted to be hydrated. The corresponding …
Periodontists' Ability To Self-Assess Their Knowledge Of Periodontics, A. Margarita Saenz
Periodontists' Ability To Self-Assess Their Knowledge Of Periodontics, A. Margarita Saenz
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This study examined periodontists' ability to self-assess their knowledge of periodontics. Self-assessment was measured as the difference between actual knowledge and perceived knowledge of two topics of clinical practice of periodontics: periodontal disease therapy and dental implant therapy. Other variables included were learning needs, motivation to learn, and background characteristics (number of years since graduation from a periodontics training program, classification as Diplomate or non- Diplomate, number of years since achieving Diplomate status, classification as private practitioner, academician, or private practitioner with a part-time academic position, and number of credit hours spent in continuing education per year). A questionnaire was …
Evaluation Of Productivity, Consumption, And Uncontrolled Total Particulate Matter Emission Factors Of Recyclable Abrasives, Sivaramakrishnan Sangameswaran
Evaluation Of Productivity, Consumption, And Uncontrolled Total Particulate Matter Emission Factors Of Recyclable Abrasives, Sivaramakrishnan Sangameswaran
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Dry abrasive blasting is a commonly used surface preparation operation by many process industries to clean up metallic surfaces and achieve surface finishes suitable for future adhesion. Abrasives used in this process can be recyclable or expendable. This study was undertaken to evaluate the performance of three recyclable abrasives: garnet, barshot and steel grit/shot in terms of productivity (area cleaned per unit time), consumption (amount of abrasive used per unit area cleaned) and uncontrolled total particulate matter (TPM) emission factors (in terms of mass of pollutant emitted per unit area cleaned and mass of pollutant emitted per unit mass of …
Experiences Of Conservative Orthodox Christian Students Attending Public Secular Accredited Counseling And Counseling Psychology Graduate Programs, Paul Schaefer
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of conservative orthodox Christian students attending public, secular, accredited counseling and counseling psychology graduate programs. Conservative orthodox Christian students who were attending public, secular, accredited counseling and counseling psychology graduate programs were recruited by email. A prescreening interview was conducted with each respondent. Seven respondents participated in three rounds of individual interviews. The overall research question was: What are the experiences of conservative orthodox Christian students attending public, secular, accredited counseling and counseling psychology graduate programs? Follow-up questions explored the participants' perceptions and experiences in depth. Data were analyzed …
Performance Appraisal Of Estimation Algorithms And Application Of Estimation Algorithms To Target Tracking, Zhanlue Zhao
Performance Appraisal Of Estimation Algorithms And Application Of Estimation Algorithms To Target Tracking, Zhanlue Zhao
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation consists of two parts. The first part deals with the performance appraisal of estimation algorithms. The second part focuses on the application of estimation algorithms to target tracking. Performance appraisal is crucial for understanding, developing and comparing various estimation algorithms. In particular, with the evolvement of estimation theory and the increase of problem complexity, performance appraisal is getting more and more challenging for engineers to make comprehensive conclusions. However, the existing theoretical results are inadequate for practical reference. The first part of this dissertation is dedicated to performance measures which include local performance measures, global performance measures and …
Essays On Fine Structure Of Asset Returns, Jumps, And Stochastic Volatility, Jung-Suk Yu
Essays On Fine Structure Of Asset Returns, Jumps, And Stochastic Volatility, Jung-Suk Yu
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
There has been an on-going debate about choices of the most suitable model amongst a variety of model specifications and parameterizations. The first dissertation essay investigates whether asymmetric leptokurtic return distributions such as Hansen's (1994) skewed tdistribution combined with GARCH specifications can outperform mixed GARCH-jump models such as Maheu and McCurdy's (2004) GARJI model incorporating the autoregressive conditional jump intensity parameterization in the discrete-time framework. I find that the more parsimonious GJR-HT model is superior to mixed GARCH-jump models. Likelihood-ratio (LR) tests, information criteria such as AIC, SC, and HQ and Value-at-Risk (VaR) analysis confirm that GJR-HT is one of …
A Comparison Of Travel Behaviors Of African American And White Travelers To An Urban Destination: The Case Of New Orleans, Kimberly Williams
A Comparison Of Travel Behaviors Of African American And White Travelers To An Urban Destination: The Case Of New Orleans, Kimberly Williams
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
After the U.S. Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and the desegregation of public transportation and facilities and with the advancements that African Americans have gained in education, income, and employment, African Americans have greater access to travel opportunities. Today's African Americans travel in greater numbers than ever before and represent a dynamic and growing travel market segment that according to the Travel Industry Association of America (TIA) (2003) generated 75 million person trips in 2002. Although there have been several studies conducted on the differences between ethnic or racial groups with regard to their participation in outdoor recreation, research …
The Ecology Of The Endangered Dusky Gopher Frog (Rana Sevosa) And A Common Congener, The Southern Leopard Frog (Rana Sphenocephala), Nicole Thurgate
The Ecology Of The Endangered Dusky Gopher Frog (Rana Sevosa) And A Common Congener, The Southern Leopard Frog (Rana Sphenocephala), Nicole Thurgate
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Many amphibian populations are rapidly disappearing throughout the world. An important issue for ecologists is why some amphibian species are more susceptible to decline than others. Here I present five experiments that compare the performance of an endangered (Rana sevosa) and a common (Rana sphenocephala) frog in changing habitats, to determine why these two species differ in their persistence. I include additional studies investigating the habitat requirements and behavior of R. sevosa. I found that habitat change in the form of canopy closure over breeding ponds negatively affects both species, making them smaller as tadpoles and at metamorphosis. The magnitude …
Fluctuations, Phase Separation And Wetting Films Near Liquid-Gas Critical Point, Ana Oprisan
Fluctuations, Phase Separation And Wetting Films Near Liquid-Gas Critical Point, Ana Oprisan
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Gravity on Earth limits the study of the properties of pure fluids near critical point because they become stratified under their own weight. Near the critical point, all thermodynamic properties either diverge or converge and the heating and cooling cause instabilities of the convective flow as a consequence of the expansibility divergence. In order to study boiling, fluctuation and phase separation processes near the critical point of pure fluids without the influence of the Earth's gravity, a number of experiments were performed in the weightlessness of Mir space station. The experimental setup called ALICE II instrument was designed to suppress …
Target Detection Using A Wavelet-Based Fractal Scheme, Gregory W. Stein
Target Detection Using A Wavelet-Based Fractal Scheme, Gregory W. Stein
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
In this thesis, a target detection technique using a rotational invariant wavelet-based scheme is presented. The technique is evaluated on Synthetic Aperture Rader (SAR) imaging and compared with a previously developed fractal-based technique, namely the extended fractal (EF) model. Both techniques attempt to exploit the textural characteristics of SAR imagery. Recently, a wavelet-based fractal feature set, similar to the proposed one, was compared with the EF feature for a general texture classification problem. The wavelet-based technique yielded a lower classification error than EF, which motivated the comparison between the two techniques presented in this paper. Experimental results show that the …