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Performing Dracula: A Critical Examination Of A Popular Text In Three Sites Of Performance., Jonathan Matthew Gray

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Dracula is a significant example of a popular phenomenon with a long and ongoing history of productive circulation in Anglo-American culture. While theorists of popular culture often use the term "performance" in their explanations of the popularity and meaningful operations of such phenomena in a culture, they do not always provide concrete definitions of what they mean by performance. This study provides an analysis of the roles performance plays in a specific popular culture phenomenon. Identifying Bram Stoker's Dracula as a nexus for a broader cultural activity, this study examines articulations of Dracula in performances and texts that both precede …

The Effects Of Type Of Web Support And Instructional Mode On The Knowledge And Discrimination Of Musical Texture Among Undergraduate Elementary Education Majors., Kenneth Lee Liske

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of varying types of out-of-class web support media and active (performance) versus passive (listening) modes of in-class instructional activities on the ability of university level non-musicians (N = 58) to define and identify specific characteristics of music texture from printed and recorded musical excerpts. Near and far transfer of learning was also examined. Three web support treatments consisted of investigator-designed supplementary web sites, available for out-of-class access, containing visual content only, audio and visual content, or progressively disclosed text, graphics, and sound. Two instructional mode treatments consisted of participation in …

Family Portraits: Contemporary Women Novelists And The Nuclear Family., Tamra Lynn Horton

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A society whose economy becomes increasingly dependent on commodity fetishism cultivates obsessive materialistic desire in its subjects. The demand for mass consumerism buoys reification, a mania wherein human beings are analogous to goods and vice versa. Successful reification depends upon hegemonic apparatuses: social, legal, and political agencies of dominant ideology. Reification is perhaps most fully realized in the form of fetishized human relationships. In the United States today, the most coercive and unassailable hegemonic apparatus is the institutionalized nuclear family, a social and legal affiliation between individuals so dogmatically fetishized as to have become compulsory. Contemporary American women writers are …

Development Of Efficient Rice Dna Transformation Methods And Rapid Evaluation Of Transgenic Lines., Junda Jiang

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A rapid and efficient method was developed for production and field evaluation of transgenic herbicide resistant elite U.S. rice (Oryza sativa L.) lines and cultivars. Six elite U.S. rice lines, including the cultivar Cocodrie, were transformed for glufosinate (phosphinothricin) herbicide resistance by particle bombardment of mature seed-derived embryogenic calli with a synthetic pat gene or the bar gene from Streptomyces hygroscopicus. By utilizing optimized media for embryogenic callus induction and bialaphos or hygromycin B as a selection agent, 258 independent transformed calli, producing 1268 transgenic plants, were recovered from 5201 bombarded calli. Transformation efficiency ranged from 5% for breeding line …

Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind: A Gis Study Of Changes In Cemetery Locations In Southeastern Louisiana From An Archaeological And Geographical Perspective, 1930--1997., Cindy Ann Nance

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Cemeteries in southeastern Louisiana are in varying stages of use---from presently in use and maintained to no longer visible on the surface. The abandonment of traditional cemeteries in southeastern Louisiana illustrates evolving settlement patterns. Earlier settlement patterns were dependent on physiographic and cultural landscape features. As settlement patterns evolve, the preferred locations of cemeteries change. As a recent participant in the nationwide preference for urban-associated Memorial Parks, is Louisiana in the process of abandoning traditional cemetery landscapes? Six factors that contribute to the abandonment of traditional cemeteries from 1930 to 1997 are presented in this study. Evolving communities, demographic shifts, …

Effect Of Rice Cultural Practices On Rotational Crop Herbicide Carryover And Imazethapyr Efficacy., Wei Zhang

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A two-year study was conducted to evaluate the possible interaction between rotational crop herbicides and herbicides used in water-seeded rice culture. Rice growth and yield reduction with rotational crop herbicides were not affected by the rice herbicides. However, the combination of molinate or thiobencarb with fluometuron, imazethapyr, metolachlor, or norflurazon at low residue levels further reduced rice heading compared with the corresponding rotational crop herbicide alone. Fluometuron and metolachlor residues at 1 to 2 half-lives have potential to injure rice and reduce rice yield in a water-seeded culture. Norflurazon injured rice and reduced rice yield at a residue level as …

Genetic Algorithm Optimization Methods In Geometrical Optics., Neal Crawford Evans

All ETDs from UAB

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Nonlinear Optical Materials As Coherence Filters For Noninvasive Imaging Through Turbid Media., Denise Brown Anderson

All ETDs from UAB

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The Meaning Of Stroke In Elderly Women: The Lived Experience., Edith L. Hilton

All ETDs from UAB

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A Three Year Study Of The Relationship Of Prematriculation Variables On Student Success At A Private, Southern University., Roger Philip Kimrey

All ETDs from UAB

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Sociolinguistic Analysis Of The Discourse Of Selected Women In Power, Alla V. Yelyseieva

Theses and Dissertations

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Brownian Dynamics Of Nonspecific Protein-Dna Interactions, Fan Yang

Theses and Dissertations

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1996 Presidential Campaign Re-Election Of President Clinton By Dick Morris As Compared To Time And Newsweek, Constance L. Osowski

Theses and Dissertations

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1999-2000 Southern Illinois University Bulletin Carbondale Campus (Undergraduate Catalog), Southern Illinois University Carbondale

SIU Bulletins and Course Catalogs Archives

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1998-1999 Annual Report Of The Board Of Trustees Of Southern Illinois University, Southern Illinois University Board Of Trustees

Reports of the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University - Archives

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Catalog 1999-2000, Dmacc

Catalogs

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An Evaluation Toolkit For Florida's Commuter Assistance Programs (Cap): A Companion To The 1999 Cap Evaluation Manual, Cutr

CUTR Research Reports

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Sole Source Media, Inc. V. Prologic : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

Appeal From Orders and Judgment of the Third Judicial District Court, In and For Salt Lake County, State of Utah, The Honorable William W. Barrett Presiding.

Utah V. Barbara Dehart : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

APPEAL FROM THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR DUCHESNE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH HONORABLE A. LYNN PAYNE, JUDGE PRESIDING

Taking Machismo To Court: The Gender Jurisprudence Of The Colombian Constitutional Court, Martha I. Morgan

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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The Origins Of Devolution: A Speculative Note, Scott Loveridge

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

Why is devolution gaining strength both in the United States and in other highly developed countries? This note looks at broad social and economic trends that may be contributing to the movement toward more local control of government operations. Among the points discussed are: the end of the cold war; the information age, the booming economy, the increasing globalization of the economy, the rise of the south; and society’s increased understanding of environmental issues. A concluding section comments on what it all means for regional scientists.

Whatever Happened To Freedom Of Speech? A Defense Of "State Interest Of The Highest Order" As A Unifying Standard For Erratic First Amendment Jurisprudence, Andrew P. Napolitano

Seton Hall Law Review

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A Study Of Consumer Protection Law In Hong Kong, Pui Ling Lee, Chi Kwan Chung

Bachelor Degree - Accountancy - Final Year Project

Consumption of goods and services is inevitable in our daily life. So consumer protection is essential for every consumer. However, the existing consumer protection system in Hong Kong is not comprehensive enough to protect consumers. Thus, this project concentrates on studying the consumer protection law in Hong Kong to evaluate its sufficiency for protecting consumers. Besides, we also investigate the Hong Kong consumer protection system, including the functions and powers of the Consumer Council, and make compare it with Australia’s consumer protection system.

The Consumer Council is the only statutory consumer protection body in Hong Kong. It is not an …

Louisiana Agriculture Winter, 1999, Lsu Agcenter

Louisiana Agriculture

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Separation Of Saturated And Unsaturated Free Fatty Acids Using Capillary Electrophoresis With Indirect Photometric Detection, F. Haddadian, S. A. Shamsi, I. M. Warner

Faculty Publications

The capillary zone electrophoresis separation of various mixtures of saturated and unsaturated free fatty acids (FFAs) is performed using adenosine monophosphate (AMP) as an indirect photometric detection reagent. The presence of Brij in the electrolyte and a temperature of 40°C in the running buffer are required to improve solubility of the very long chain FFAs. The separation of C12-C31 differing by only one carbon is achieved using N-methylformamide (NMF)-dioxane (3:2), 40mM Tris, 2.5mM AMP, and 0.5% (w/v) Brij in approximately 40 min. However, baseline resolution of unsaturated isomers of FFAs (C14-C22) requires the presence of water, because water enhances the …

Influence Of Calcium Silicate And Sterilization On The Natural Suppressiveness And On The Conduciveness Of Two Soils To Rhizoctonia Solani, Fabrício De Ávila Rodrigues, Gilberto Fernandes Corrêa, Caspar Henrique Korndörfer, Maria Amelia Dos Santos, Lawrence Elliot Datnoff

Faculty Publications

The effect of calcium silicate slag and soil sterilization on the natural suppressiveness of a Typic Acrustox (clay Dark Red Latosol - LEa) and the natural conduciveness of an Oxic Haplustoll (TRe) to Rhizoctonia solani were studied under greenhouse conditions. The experimental design was a three-replicate completely randomized one, with 2 × 3 × 2 factorial combination of the following treatments: two soil kinds (LEa and TRe, collected at 0-20 cm layer); three treatments with and without soil sterilization, calcium silicate slag and nontreated control; and uninfested and infested with R. solani. Each soil material was infested previously with 800 …

Numerical Simulation And Experimental Verification Of Cone Penetration Rate And Anisotropy In Cohesive Soils., Daekyu Kim

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This research focuses on the effects of cone penetration rate and anisotropy on the results of piezocone penetration and subsequent dissipation tests. Finite element analyses, and miniature piezocone penetration and dissipation tests in a calibration chamber were performed, then the results were compared. The anisotropic elastoplastic-viscoplastic; bounding surface model was chosen as a soil model and it was implemented into a computer program, ANCALBR8. The isotropic/anisotropic triaxial compression, creep tests, and oedometer tests were performed to determine the model parameter values and verify the model. The model showed very good agreement with the triaxial test results. The theoretical formulation was …

Studying The Importance Of Hurricanes To The Northern Gulf Of Mexico Coast, Gregory W. Stone, Ping Wang, David A. Pepper, John M. Grymes, Harry H. Roberts, Xiongping Zhang, S. A. Hsu, Oscar K. Huh

Faculty Publications

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Tribute To Professor Mel Goldberg: 1972-1977: Melvin B. Goldberg's Contribution To Lamp And Clinical Legal Education: A Tribute To My Mentor And Friend, James P. Cullen

William Mitchell Law Review

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The Future Of Callings: An Interdisciplinary Summit On The Public Obligations Of Professionals Into The Next Millennium: Report On The Conference Held April 24-25, 1998, Neil W. Hamilton

William Mitchell Law Review

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