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Protecting The Innocent: The Massachusetts Governor's Council Report, Joseph L. Hoffmann

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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A Crisis Of Opportunity: The Example Of New Orleans And Public Education In Antebellum Louisiana, Sarah Elisabeth Lipscomb

LSU Master's Theses

The purpose of this study is to explore the development of public education in antebellum Louisiana. Using primarily public records, I found that despite the successful system instituted in New Orleans in the early 1840s, the rest of Louisiana faltered in its attempts to establish free public schools. Notwithstanding the requirement contained in the 1845 Constitution that each parish must organize public schools, the lack of guidance, supervision, and funding from the state legislature all coalesced to condemn public education in most of the rest of the state. As public schools in New Orleans thrived throughout the decades leading up …

Public Relations Ethics: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, Paul Stuart Lieber

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This two-part study employed 11 qualitative interviews, the Defining Issues Test (DIT) and a quantitative version of the five-factor TARES test to complete the first cross-cultural analysis of the ethical decision-making patterns of public relations practitioners. The DIT is an instrument based on Kohlberg’s (1969) moral development theory, the TARES test composed of 14 self-enforced, ethical consideration statements derived from the research of Baker and Martinson (2001). Results indicate no statistically significant difference in levels of moral development and ethical consideration between sampled practitioners in Australia, New Zealand and the United States (Lieber, 2003). This finding argues for a vocational …

Genetic Diversity Among Sugarcane Clones Using Target Region Amplification Polymorphism (Trap) Markers And Pedigree Relationships, Jie Alojado Arro

LSU Master's Theses

Genetic diversity is indispensable to sustain genetic gain in breeding programs. Cultivated sugarcane is a highly heterozygous hybrid derived from crossing two highly heterozygous parents. Sugarcane breeders traditionally rely on pedigree records to select parents. Molecular markers now make it possible to assess genetic diversity at the DNA level. Sixty three sugarcane clones were characterised using Target Region Amplification Polymorphism (TRAP) markers and pedigree relationship (Coefficient of parentage (COP)). The TRAP is a PCR-based marker with a fixed primer designed from Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) sequences paired with an arbitrary primer. It is supposed to unravel trait based polymorphism in …

Les Implications De La Littérature Dans L'Avènevement De La Démocratie Dans Les Pays Du Golfe De Guinée Entre 1988 Et 1998, Bani Gouda Ningbinnin

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation is focused on the contribution of literature in the establishment of democracy in four French-speaking countries of the Golf of Guinea between 1988 and 1998. They are Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea and Togo. In 1991, a democratization movement that started in Benin occurred in many West African countries. It was propelled by an invented idea of National Conferences that were gathered by the countries elites either with the support or against the will of the ruling government. Thus, it was possible to organize a successful National Conference in some of those countries like Benin, Mali and Niger. But …

Early Modern English Midwifery Manuals, Lauren L. Hoffman

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Taoism And The Artistic Process, Teresa Mathew

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Influences On Condom Use Among College Students, Margaret Anne Flaget

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Youth And Government : A Proposal For North Dakota, Laura Jane Rabenberg

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Securing The Right To Same-Sex Marriage, Christopher S. Pieske

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Two Paths To Democracy : Exploring The Differences In The Process Of Democratization In Cases Of Internally-Triggered Versus Militarily-Instigated Transitions, Amanda Licht

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Writing, Producing, Recording And Promoting An Original Album, Jessie Veeder

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Comorbidity Of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder And Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Low Income Urban Youth, Karen Ann Laslie

LSU Master's Theses

Chronic exposure to violence is becoming increasingly common for urban children, placing them at an increased risk of developing psychopathology. For children exposed to chronic violence, two common diagnoses are Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). However, symptom overlap between these disorders has made differential diagnosis difficult. Most studies looking at the comorbidity between ADHD and PTSD have focused only on maltreated children. This study is the first to look at comorbid rates of ADHD and PTSD for children exposed to chronic violence, not limited to maltreatment. Specifically, this study evaluated rates of PTSD symptoms in children with …

The Experience Of Anger In Everyday Situations And Its Association With Anxiety And Depression, Bethany J. Roel

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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An Analysis Of The Variables That Influence A Country's Decision To Ratify The Stockholm Convention On Persistent Organic Pollutants, Tokesha Marie Collins

LSU Master's Theses

The objective of this thesis is to identify key factors that influence a country to ratify the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Treaty. The POPs treaty seeks to eliminate or reduce the emissions of 12 POPs. I will examine the links between the countries that have ratified the POPs treaty in an effort to identify variables that may have influenced a country's decision to ratify the treaty. For each of the 165 nations in my dataset, I will examine economic, social, geographic, health, and political indicators and history of malaria and determine if a relationship exists between these variables and treaty …

Structural Integrity And Fatigue Crack Propagation Life Assessment Of Welded And Weld-Repaired Structures, Mohammad Shah Alam

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Structural integrity is the science and technology of the margin between safety and disaster. Proper evaluation of the structural integrity and fatigue life of any structure (aircraft, ship, railways, bridges, gas and oil transmission pipelines, etc.) is important to ensure the public safety, environmental protection, and economical consideration. Catastrophic failure of any structure can be avoided if structural integrity is assessed and necessary precaution is taken appropriately. Structural integrity includes tasks in many areas, such as structural analysis, failure analysis, nondestructive testing, corrosion, fatigue and creep analysis, metallurgy and materials, fracture mechanics, fatigue life assessment, welding metallurgy, development of repairing …

Riding Out The Risks: An Ethnographic Study Of Risk Perceptions In A South Louisiana Bayou Community, Susan Camille Manning

LSU Master's Theses

This ethnographic study explores the risk perceptions of a small unincorporated coastal community in southeastern Louisiana. This community has experienced social and environmental change due to events including tropical storms and hurricanes, erosion, subsidence, oil and gas activities, development, and the impact of global seafood markets. Many global risk perception studies have focused on the perception of risk to human health and property connected with natural and technological disasters, but few have explored the issue of minorities and small at-risk communities. To explore this theoretical and methodological gap, this study uses a variety of qualitative ethnographic methods to examine a …

A Hard Look Or A Blind Eye: Administrative Law And Military Deference, Jonathan Masur

UC Law Journal

The subject of judicial deference to the military in time of war has spawned a rich and variegated literature. The vast majority of these articles have focused upon what one might term "legal deference," or courts' willingness to construe the military's statutory and constitutional authority broadly, while simultaneously narrowing the legal restraints upon its actions. This Article adopts a divergent approach, taking as its point of departure the argument that the modem wartime jurisprudence is defined as much by the manner in which courts treat the executive's factual assertions as the fashion in which those courts have construed the legal …

Some Bargain: How Bankruptcy Courts May Now Require A Debtor To Relinquish Expectations Of Privacy As A Condition Of The Bankruptcy Bargain, Jennifer Taylor

UC Law Journal

There was a time when incurring debt and becoming insolvent was considered a crime. Although those days are long gone, discharge of debt in bankruptcy continues to be premised upon the debtor's cooperation in the "bankruptcy bargain." Honesty and disclosure of certain relevant information is required in exchange for a "fresh start." This Note explores the level of scrutiny that an individual debtor must submit to as part of the bankruptcy bargain by asking and answering the Fourth Amendment question: What is society "prepared to recognize as reasonable?" Contrary to the recent opinion of one bankruptcy court that went so …

Road Rage And R.S. 2477: Judicial And Administrative Responsibility For Resolving Road Claims On Public Lands, Bret C. Birdsong

UC Law Journal

Throughout the west, efforts to protect wild lands are being hampered by counties' and states' assertions of road ownership on public lands. On several occasions in the past decade, rural westerners have climbed atop bulldozers and scraped roads across some of the nation's most pristine lands, including National Parks, National Forests, and National Monuments, in the latest battle of the "sagebrush rebellion." The cover of Time magazine made one bulldozing county commissioner, Dick Carver of Nye County, Nevada, a folk hero for many rural westerners. Other counties' deployment of bulldozers has landed them in court, where they defend against the …

Protecting Mutual Funds From Market-Timing Profiteers: Forward Pricing International Fund Shares, David Ward

UC Law Journal

It has been the worst crisis in the eighty-year history of the mutual fund industry. Beginning with a probe by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, investigators and securities regulators have uncovered widespread improprieties in the $7.5 trillion mutual fund business. In case after case, hedge fund managers, brokers and mutual fund executives conspired to allow favored investors to rapidly trade in and out of mutual funds, taking advantage of pricing inefficiencies to reap hundreds of millions of dollars in profits at the expense of long-term shareholders. This Note examines the recently uncovered abuses within the industry and the responses …

The Accelerating Degradation Of American Criminal Codes, Paul H. Robinson, Michael T. Cahill

UC Law Journal

This Article addresses the ongoing-and, indeed, accelerating process of sporadic, piecemeal, and unnecessary legislation leading to increasing inconsistencies and irrationalities in American criminal law. After a wave of modernization in the I960s and 1970s, the past generation has not witnessed further advances, but rather a serious and growing degradation of most criminal codes.

This Article offers several insights regarding criminal code degradation. First, it provides specific and concrete examples of degradation and its harmful effects. Second, drawing on their experiences as participants in the recent reform efforts of Illinois and Kentucky, the authors offer an insider's view of how the …

Free Exercise And The Problem Of Symmetry, Nelson Tebbe

UC Law Journal

A controversial neutrality rule currently governs cases brought under the Free Exercise Clause. Curiously, leading critics of the Supreme Court's approach have not taken issue with neutrality itself, but instead have argued that the Court has adopted the wrong sort of neutrality principle. In this Article, the author argues that neutrality of any stripe will be insufficient to vindicate the critics' own vision because of a difficulty called the problem of symmetry. Liberty, by contrast, is asymmetrical and consequently it delivers more attractive outcomes in real cases. The author proposes a liberty rule, describes how it would work, and defends …

Two Wrongs Don't Make A Patent Right, David Catechi

UC Law Journal

Recent litigation over genetically modified corn reveals an increasing imbalance between the property rights of genetic seed manufacturers and the rights of individual farmers. Common-law property doctrines and traditional patent law fail to protect farmers leaving them exposed to both potential genetic contamination of their crops and costly patent infringement liability. This Note proposes a simple yet effective solution-Notice. Requiring patent holders to provide notice to alleged infringing farmers sufficient to enable the farmer to cease infringement balances the rights of both the patent holder and the farmer. Litigation in both the United States and Canada regarding gentically modified corn …

Recusal And The Supreme Court, Debra Lyn Bassett

UC Law Journal

From Laird v. Tatum to Bush v. Gore, the refusal of some Supreme Court Justices to recuse themselves in controversial cases has caused reactions ranging from confusion to disgust. The latest "duck hunting" recusal controversy, and the Court's seemingly callous response to the public outcry, seemed to suggest a deliberate indifference to the recusal standard. This Article examines the recusal provisions applicable to the Supreme Court. There is little doubt that Congress drafted the federal recusal statute broadly and intended to encompass Supreme Court Justices within the statute's reach. However, interesting questions surround recusal in the Supreme Court due to …

Persuasion, Transparency, And Government Speech, Gia B. Lee

UC Law Journal

Recent news reports indicate that federal, state, and local government entities and officials engage in pseudonymous or anonymous communications more often than we might imagine. Current trends, including advances in technology and the blurring of the public/private distinction, suggest that those types of communications will become only more frequent. Yet thus far there has been no sustained legal or constitutional analysis of such communications. This Article addresses that omission. It examines the issue of veiled government communications by drawing upon not only constitutional theory and case law but also social science research that explains how governments persuade and how citizens …

If The Hat Fits, Wear It, If The Turban Fits, Run For Your Life: Reflections On The Indefinite Detention And Targeted Killing Of Suspected Terrorists, Vincent-Joel Proulx

UC Law Journal

This Article analyzes and discusses some of the United States' unilateral policies in the war on terror, namely the indefinite detention and targeted killing of suspected terrorists. It posits that the legal community should resist recent arguments purporting to vindicate certain justifications for curtailing fundamental human rights. First, the Article rebuts recent attempts to subsume legally insulated aspects of the war on terror into one overriding security discourse, with particular resistance to the merger of human rights by the national security agenda. Second, the Article attempts to refute claims that the significance of the distinction between prisoners of war and …

Guest Worker Policy: A Critical Analysis Of President Bush's Proposed Reform, Camille J. Bosworth

UC Law Journal

The Note argues that the agricultural guest-worker program in the United States needs reform. U.S. President George W. Bush has talked publicly about the need for change since he first assumed office in 2ooo. The events of September II, 2001, however, brought what appeared to be promising discussions between President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox to an abrupt halt. Now, nearly five years later, meaningful changes are yet to be seen. Focusing on Mexican workers, the Note traces the historical roots of guest worker programs in the United States, analyzes the strengths and shortcomings of President Bush's proposal, and …

Castle To Condo, Country To Corporation: What Becomes Of Hamlet In Almereyda's Modern World, Melissa Trosclair Daigle

LSU Master's Theses

This paper looks into the inner workings of Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000). Even though Almereyda updates the setting and cuts many of the lines, sometimes entire scenes, from the source text, he is able to convey the some of the themes through his use of technology and media. While some themes do transfer into the postmodern setting, the places of discord are most interesting. Of particular interest is his use of modern technologies to display the corruption found in Shakespeare's play. These technologies, including speakerphone, surveillance equipment, wiring devices, handheld camcorders, and still photography, create an atmosphere of both continual …

"Sacred Duties": How Historical Constructs Of Gender And Work Inform Women's Involvement In U.S. Higher Education, Amber Leigh Vlasnik

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis explores how arguments about gender and labor roles have determined women's exclusion from or acceptance to the academy throughout the history of the United States. Race, gender, and class are identified as interlocking identities that shape experiences and women's gendered relationship to labor is demonstrated through the use of a materialist feminist framework. By tracing the distinct eras of colonial and United States history, the thesis illustrates the debates and public mindset of each time period and how they relate to women and higher education. The thesis concludes that popular social conceptions of the female body and women's …