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School Life On The Mississippi: An Inquiry Into The Impact Of The Louisiana Reform Movement Related To Standards In World History Instruction In Three Secondary School Settings., Michael Joseph Schramm Jan 2000

School Life On The Mississippi: An Inquiry Into The Impact Of The Louisiana Reform Movement Related To Standards In World History Instruction In Three Secondary School Settings., Michael Joseph Schramm

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of standards on the instruction of world history in three secondary school settings. Contact with the Department of Education of the State of Louisiana found that the implementation of standards had only begun in 1997. After a grace period for implementation, the inaugural testing of the accountability system for these standards occurred in the spring of 2000. Therefore, this study became an exploratory investigation into the use of standards as they impact world history instruction. The first research question was designed to assist the researcher in exploring the influence that …

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On Stochastic Integration For White Noise Distribution Theory., Said Kalema Ngobi Jan 2000

On Stochastic Integration For White Noise Distribution Theory., Said Kalema Ngobi

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This thesis consists of two parts, each part concentrating on a different problem from the theory of Stochastic Integration. Chapter 1 contains the introduction explaining the results in this dissertation in general terms. We use the infinite dimensional space S'R endowed with the gaussian measure mu. The Hilbert space ( L2) is defined as (L2) (L2) ≡ L2( S'R , mu) and our results are based on the Gel'fand triple ( S )beta ⊂ (L2) ⊂ S* b . The necessary preliminary background in white noise analysis are well elaborated in Chapter 2. In Chapter 3 we present a generalization …

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The History Of Our Lady Of The Lake College, 1923--2000: A Study Of Organizational Change., Linda Carol Rakestraw Pendergast Jan 2000

The History Of Our Lady Of The Lake College, 1923--2000: A Study Of Organizational Change., Linda Carol Rakestraw Pendergast

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This qualitative research study investigated the history of Our Lady of the Lake College from 1923 through 2000. It endeavored to determine the influence of the times, the events, the people, and the traditions that have contributed to its development and progress in the seventy-seven years that have passed since it was established. The study also sought to document the important institutional events that transpired during this time period and establish a continuity of the College's progress through the years from a hospital-based diploma program in nursing to a free standing degree granting institution. In addition to the evolutionary development …

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The Impact Of Implementing Metacognitive Strategies On Instructional And Experiential Scaffolding., Frances Ann Steward Jan 2000

The Impact Of Implementing Metacognitive Strategies On Instructional And Experiential Scaffolding., Frances Ann Steward

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of the mixed multiple case study was to explore scaffolding at home and school. Strategic instructional procedures, metacognitive strategies use, and homework procedures were examined during reading instruction and home assistance for progress. The participants are as follows: (a) The three principals setting the school's instructional tone; (b) The three reading teachers providing modeling, coaching, and encouragement during lesson presentation and feedback; (c) The six students (two fifth graders in each of the three reading classrooms) depending upon assistance for comprehension task completion; and (d) The six family members assisting with homework. The school sites were selected with …

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Structure, Expression And Promoter Activity Of Ubiquitin Genes From Rice (Oryza Sativa L.)., Jianlin Wang Jan 2000

Structure, Expression And Promoter Activity Of Ubiquitin Genes From Rice (Oryza Sativa L.)., Jianlin Wang

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Successful transgenic plant production is largely dependent on the use of suitable promoters. In this study, we described isolation of rice ubiquitin genes, and demonstrated the potential utility of the rice ubiquitin promoters in plant transformation systems. Two polyubiquitin genes (RUBQ1 and RUBQ2) and two ubiquitin extension/fusion genes (RUBQ3 and RUBQ4) have been isolated from a rice genomic BAC library. DNA sequence data revealed that both RUBQ1 and RUBQ2 contained an open reading frame encoding a hexameric precursor ubiquitin and an intron immediate upstream of the initiation codon. The two ubiquitin fusion/extension genes RUBQ3 and RUBQ4 contained one repeat of …

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Prospective Memory: Contributions Of Age, Individual Differences, And Metamemory., Celinda M. Reese Jan 2000

Prospective Memory: Contributions Of Age, Individual Differences, And Metamemory., Celinda M. Reese

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The influence of age, ability, monitoring, and metamemory on event-based prospective memory was examined using an adapted version of G. O. Einstein and M. A. McDaniel's (1990) task. Two samples of younger and older adults who differed in educational attainment and verbal ability were compared. Contrary to previous research (Cherry & LeCompte, 1999), the age/ability groups did not differ on prospective memory performance. On-line monitoring ratings were not related to prospective memory but posttest monitoring ratings were. Age differences in reports of task-irrelevant thoughts emerged from the on-line monitoring data. Although age and ability group differences on self-reports of memory …

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Effects Of Reading Styles On African-American Preschoolers Of Disadvantage., Elizabeth Nowlin Witt Jan 2000

Effects Of Reading Styles On African-American Preschoolers Of Disadvantage., Elizabeth Nowlin Witt

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study investigated the effects of two styles of storybook reading within the storybook reading event (SBRE) upon African-American preschoolers of disadvantage (AAP-D). One style, performance-oriented, was thought to be closer to cultural frameworks familiar for this population. This style was contrasted with the interactive style familiar to children of middle-class. Each style was utilized with two groups of five children (ten children per condition) across three storybooks, which were each read six times. Pre- and posttesting were used to determine changes in language (semantic and discourse ability, as measured by retelling), literacy, and world knowledge. A control group of …

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Well Integrity Mechanism, Failure, And Testing In Shallow Marine Sediments., Desheng Zhou Jan 2000

Well Integrity Mechanism, Failure, And Testing In Shallow Marine Sediments., Desheng Zhou

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The leak-off test (LOT) is an in-situ method for testing casing shoe integrity in a well. It is used to evaluate the cement and formation integrity relative to the well plan specifications. The results determine whether any remedial cementing or corrective actions are required and are a basis for planning future wells in the area. Typical analysis of LOTs assumes an elastic wellbore and involves identification of linear trends on the recorded plots. However, LOTs recorded in shallow marine sediments (SMS) are inherently nonlinear and their analysis is a problem. Starting from the analyses of shallow soil properties, LOT plots, …

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An Information Theoretic Approach To Content Based Image Retrieval., John Morris Zachary Jr Jan 2000

An Information Theoretic Approach To Content Based Image Retrieval., John Morris Zachary Jr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

We propose an information theoretic approach to the representation and comparison of color features in digital images to handle various problems in the area of content-based image retrieval. The interpretation of color histograms as joint probability density functions enables the use of a wide range of concepts from information theory to be considered in the extraction of color features from images and the computation of similarity between pairs of images. The entropy of an image is a measure of the randomness of the color distribution in an image. Rather than replacing color histograms as an image representation, we demonstrate that …

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Air Traffic Control Cti Program, Cathy Schattenberg Jan 2000

Air Traffic Control Cti Program, Cathy Schattenberg

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

In order to broaden the employment opportunities in the aviation industry for graduates and to develop a more educated work force in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Collegiate Training Initiative (CTI) program was implemented in October 1997. Thls program was tested for over five years in post-secondary educational institutes. The CTI program focuses on the graduate having a broad-based knowledge of the air traffic management system, FAA, aviation industry, and principal topics covered in many existing aviation degree programs (FAA, 1997). Graduates of the program are required to attend the FAA Academy to successfully complete the skills and equipment …

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Towards The Zero Accident Goal: Assisting The First Officer: Monitor And Challenge Captain Errors, Eugen Tarnow Jan 2000

Towards The Zero Accident Goal: Assisting The First Officer: Monitor And Challenge Captain Errors, Eugen Tarnow

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

In this article the authority system in the airplane cockpit is related to thirty year old authority studies of Stanley Milgram. Human errors made in the cockpit are found similar to those made in the authority experiments. It is argued that up to 20% of all airplane accidents may be preventable by optimizing the monitoring and challenging of captain errors by the first officer.

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Foraging Behavior Of Vultures In Central Florida, Eric D. Stolen Jan 2000

Foraging Behavior Of Vultures In Central Florida, Eric D. Stolen

Florida Field Naturalist

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Thirteenth Report Of The Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee: 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, And 2000, Reed Bowman Jan 2000

Thirteenth Report Of The Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee: 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, And 2000, Reed Bowman

Florida Field Naturalist

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Révision De Quelques Hypothèses Sur Le Creusement Karstique, Jacques Choppy Jan 2000

Révision De Quelques Hypothèses Sur Le Creusement Karstique, Jacques Choppy

International Journal of Speleology

Quite often, as we know better karst phenomena and the evolution of the karst environment, several hypotheses on speleogenesis appeared to be flimsy. Some of these hypotheses, concerning processes playing a part in the creation of karst forms, exceed the limits of their field. Others suggest hydraulic mechanisms, and interventions of geological or geographical factors likely to be questioned. Hypotheses relating to the evolution of karst, as well as the classification of karst types, suffer from the lack of an analytical approach. However, some of these hypotheses still have an important place in the current vision of speleologists and karstologists.

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Front Matter Ob Vol 18#1 Apr2000, Ontario Birds Jan 2000

Front Matter Ob Vol 18#1 Apr2000, Ontario Birds

Ontario Birds

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Wetland Vegetation Monitoring, 1999/2000 (Salinity Action Plan), R. Gurner, R. Froend, G. Ogden, B. Franke Jan 2000

Wetland Vegetation Monitoring, 1999/2000 (Salinity Action Plan), R. Gurner, R. Froend, G. Ogden, B. Franke

Research outputs pre 2011

This report represents the vegetation component of a project designed to provide on-going monitoring of wetland salinity and biological resources in wetlands of the agricultural zone of south-west Western Australia. Maintenance of wetland biological diversity in the agricultural zone is one of the major objectives of the Salinity Action Plan. Due to their low position in the landscape, wetlands are the habitat most affected by salinisation.

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Investigation Of Pattern Classification And Feature Selection Of Gaussian Processes, Vivek Ramaprasad Jan 2000

Investigation Of Pattern Classification And Feature Selection Of Gaussian Processes, Vivek Ramaprasad

Masters Theses

"This thesis focuses on the application of statistical techniques for pattern classification where the patterns are power spectra of the recorded acoustic signals of occluded objects. Different approaches used to classify are : The Bayes linear and piece-wise linear classifiers, the correlation classifier, classification using error spectra and the clustering algorithm. Classifiers were designed and experiments were conducted to investigate the performance. The performance is evaluated in terms of the percentage efficiency by counting the number of vectors identified correctly and the number of vectors which were misclassified. The feature vectors from primitive measurement space is then reduced to lesser …

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Recent Records Of Waders In Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, North-Western China., Ma Ming, Ken Kraaijeveld Jan 2000

Recent Records Of Waders In Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, North-Western China., Ma Ming, Ken Kraaijeveld

Wader Study Group Bulletin

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Experiences With Darvic Colour-Rings In Australia, Clive D. T. Minton Jan 2000

Experiences With Darvic Colour-Rings In Australia, Clive D. T. Minton

Wader Study Group Bulletin

No abstract provided.

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Birding In The American West: A Handbook, Steve N. Howell Jan 2000

Birding In The American West: A Handbook, Steve N. Howell

Western Birds

No abstract provided.

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Where Do Pigeon Guillemots From California Go For The Winter?, Terence R. Wahl, Bill Tweit Jan 2000

Where Do Pigeon Guillemots From California Go For The Winter?, Terence R. Wahl, Bill Tweit

Western Birds

No abstract provided.

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Featured Photo, Robert A. Hamilton, N. John Schmitt Jan 2000

Featured Photo, Robert A. Hamilton, N. John Schmitt

Western Birds

No abstract provided.

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Preface, Frank R. Moore Jan 2000

Preface, Frank R. Moore

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

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Integration Of Research With Long-Term Monitoring: Breeding Wood Ducks On The Savannah River Site, Robert A. Kennamer, Gary R. Hepp Jan 2000

Integration Of Research With Long-Term Monitoring: Breeding Wood Ducks On The Savannah River Site, Robert A. Kennamer, Gary R. Hepp

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

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Age-Dependent Aspects Of Stopover Biology Of Passerine Migrants, Mark S. Woodrey Jan 2000

Age-Dependent Aspects Of Stopover Biology Of Passerine Migrants, Mark S. Woodrey

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

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Integration Of Long-Term Research Into A Gis-Based Landscape Habitat Model For The Red-Cockaded Woodpecker, Kathleen E. Franzreb, F. Thomas Lloyd Jan 2000

Integration Of Long-Term Research Into A Gis-Based Landscape Habitat Model For The Red-Cockaded Woodpecker, Kathleen E. Franzreb, F. Thomas Lloyd

Studies in Avian Biology

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Full Issue, Studies In Avian Biology Jan 2000

Full Issue, Studies In Avian Biology

Studies in Avian Biology

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Seabird Abundances Off Washington, 1972-1998, Terence R. Wahl, Bill Tweit Jan 2000

Seabird Abundances Off Washington, 1972-1998, Terence R. Wahl, Bill Tweit

Western Birds

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An Educator's Evaluation Of Quality Reading Resources For Parents And Teachers, Barbara C. Mcgregory Jan 2000

An Educator's Evaluation Of Quality Reading Resources For Parents And Teachers, Barbara C. Mcgregory

Honors Capstones

There are many children in this country who are learning to read or need help with reading. Parents are unsure where to look for quality resources on the subject of reading. It would be of great benefit for teachers, as well as parents, to have a list of books to refer to when the need arises. The purpose of the project is to evaluate reading resources and determine which are of the highest quality. In order to develop a list of the quality resources, the researcher looked for benchmarks in order to determine the criteria for which the resources would …

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Analysis Of The Exposure Draft To Eliminate The Pooling-Of-Interests Method, Donald F.G. Price Iii Jan 2000

Analysis Of The Exposure Draft To Eliminate The Pooling-Of-Interests Method, Donald F.G. Price Iii

Honors Capstones

This paper analyzes and discusses the major issues, benefits, and problems with the recent Exposure Draft, which deals with accounting regulations for business combinations. This Exposure Draft makes several significant changes to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) including the elimination of the pooling-of-interests method and a reduction in the goodwill amortization premium to a maximum of twenty years. Utilized methods include researching the Exposure Draft and several pertinent, outside sources. The majority of sources used for this paper confirm the need to make such changes. Several articles also provide quality arguments against the Exposure Draft, leading the author to agree …

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