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Personal Reflection:From Regional University To Premier Research Institution: Multiple Forms And Applications Of Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning, Jeffery Galle Jan 2009

Personal Reflection:From Regional University To Premier Research Institution: Multiple Forms And Applications Of Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning, Jeffery Galle

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

This reflective essay describes the distinct ways that the scholarship of teaching and university has been integrated into the academic culture at two very different universities with the suggestion that universities who actively study their own relationship and history with SoTL can make some empowering discoveries.

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Book Review: The Course Syllabus: A Learning-Centred Approach (2nd Ed.) By Judith Grunert O’Brien, Barbara Millis, And Margaret Cohen (Jossey Bass, 2008), Mark Barrow Jan 2009

Book Review: The Course Syllabus: A Learning-Centred Approach (2nd Ed.) By Judith Grunert O’Brien, Barbara Millis, And Margaret Cohen (Jossey Bass, 2008), Mark Barrow

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Excerpt: The dedication in this book clearly describes the authors’ target audience – those committed to teaching students to value the processes of learning, not just the learning. Clearly aiming the book at instructors, the authors address them throughout, emphasising the personal responsibility that...

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The Mis-Characterization Of The Negro: A Race Critique Of The Prior Conviction Impeachment Rule, Montre D. Carodine Jan 2009

The Mis-Characterization Of The Negro: A Race Critique Of The Prior Conviction Impeachment Rule, Montre D. Carodine

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Rethinking The Constitutional Criminal Procedure Of Juvenile Transfer Hearings: Apprendi, Adult Punishment, And Adult Process, Jenny E. Carroll Jan 2009

Rethinking The Constitutional Criminal Procedure Of Juvenile Transfer Hearings: Apprendi, Adult Punishment, And Adult Process, Jenny E. Carroll

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Theory, Identity, Vocation: Three Models Of Christian Legal Scholarship, William S. Brewbaker Iii Jan 2009

Theory, Identity, Vocation: Three Models Of Christian Legal Scholarship, William S. Brewbaker Iii

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Recognizably Christian scholarship is becoming more commonplace in the American legal academy yet little systematic attention has been given to fundamental questions of approach This article highlights moments of continuity and discontinuity between Christian legal scholarship and its secular counterparts Contrary to the expectations generated by contemporary political debate the distinctive contribution of Christian legal scholarship is not primarily to provide ammunition for political programs of the right or the left but to situate law and human legal practices within a larger story about the worldThis article develops three models of Christian legal scholarship theory identity and vocation I employ …

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The Murrow Tradition: What Was It, And Does It Still Live?, Raluca Cozma Jan 2009

The Murrow Tradition: What Was It, And Does It Still Live?, Raluca Cozma

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation explores the differences in the quality of radio foreign news and foreign correspondents between CBS during World War II and NPR during the Iraq War II. Triangulating quantitative and qualitative methods (content analysis, historical research, and in-depth interviews), this study proposes a model of quality foreign news to help determine what the Murrow tradition means. The model is then used to test if that celebrated tradition lives on in a non-commercial setting at NPR. The two-pronged model pulls together theories of mass communication and historical accounts to assess (1) the quality of the foreign correspondents at the two …

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Keeping It Real: Reforming The Untried Conviction Impeachment Rule, Montre D. Carodine Jan 2009

Keeping It Real: Reforming The Untried Conviction Impeachment Rule, Montre D. Carodine

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Improving Healthcare Supply Chains And Decision Making In The Management Of Pharmaceuticals, John Michael Woosley Jan 2009

Improving Healthcare Supply Chains And Decision Making In The Management Of Pharmaceuticals, John Michael Woosley

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The rising cost of quality healthcare is becoming an increasing concern. A significant part of healthcare cost is the pharmaceutical supply component. Improving healthcare supply chains is critical not only because of the financial magnitude but also because it impacts so many people. Efforts such as this project are essential in understanding the current operations of healthcare pharmacy systems and in offering decision support tools to managers struggling to make the best use of organizational resources. The purpose of this study is to address the objectives of a local hospital that exhibits typical problems in pharmacy supply chain management. We …

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Response To Reverend William Schweiker Symposium - A Common Morality For The Global Age: In Gratitude For What We Are Given: Legal Concepts And Applications, Heather Elliott Jan 2009

Response To Reverend William Schweiker Symposium - A Common Morality For The Global Age: In Gratitude For What We Are Given: Legal Concepts And Applications, Heather Elliott

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Temperature Impact On Nitrification And Bacterial Growth Kinetics In Acclimating Recirculating Aquaculture Systems Biofilters, Milton Maada-Gomoh Saidu Jan 2009

Temperature Impact On Nitrification And Bacterial Growth Kinetics In Acclimating Recirculating Aquaculture Systems Biofilters, Milton Maada-Gomoh Saidu

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This project assessed short-term temperature effects on total ammonia nitrogen (TAN) utilization rates in a batch laboratory-scale recirculating system. The tank system was designed for experiments on short term steady state and diurnal temperatures. A set of numerical models was developed to simulate observed results. The performance of the biofilters was determined with three tank replicates at fixed temperatures of 13, 20 and 300C; and at diurnal transient (sinusoidal) temperature regimes of (20 ± 30C; 30 ± 30C). Ammonia utilization rates and biofilter performance for beads acclimated at different temperatures regimes separated and mixed were also determined. Total ammonia utilization …

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Interpreting The Protecting Tenants At Foreclosure Act Of 2009, Allyson E. Gold Jan 2009

Interpreting The Protecting Tenants At Foreclosure Act Of 2009, Allyson E. Gold

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Sedimentation On A Mixed Siliciclastic/Carbonate Continental Margin Over Decadal To Millennial Timescales: Gulf Of Papua, Zahid Muhammad Jan 2009

Sedimentation On A Mixed Siliciclastic/Carbonate Continental Margin Over Decadal To Millennial Timescales: Gulf Of Papua, Zahid Muhammad

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Sediments from the Gulf of Papua were examined to estimate particle flux and sediment mass accumulation rates on multiple timescales. Patterns of sediment mass accumulation and inventory-derived 210Pb fluxes display regional variations, decreasing seaward, and along isobaths seaward from the northeastern shelf edge. The amount of terrigenous sediment load being discharged annually from the shelf and accumulating in Pandora Trough is approximately 7-14×106 tonnes. The existence of possible turbidity-current transport and deposition have been documented in deeper parts of the Gulf of Papua. High excess 210Pb fluxes estimated from seabed inventories at the shelf edge and upper slope are consistent …

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Ethics Reform In Alabama, Susan Pace Hamill Jan 2009

Ethics Reform In Alabama, Susan Pace Hamill

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An Introduction To The Life And The Songs Of Composer Chris Deblasio, With Special Emphasis On His Cycle All The Way Through Evening, Brian Bonin Jan 2009

An Introduction To The Life And The Songs Of Composer Chris Deblasio, With Special Emphasis On His Cycle All The Way Through Evening, Brian Bonin

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

For composer Chris DeBlasio, the omnipresence of HIV/AIDS during the final years of his life helped to channel his creative energies into a unique compositional voice. At a time when certain elements of the New York music scene rewarded atonality and musical experimentation, DeBlasio pursued a lyrically tonal, theatrically-informed style in the company of composers such as Jake Heggie and Ricky Ian Gordon. Unfortunately, his death in 1993 at age thirty-four limited the growing awareness of his compositions in the greater artistic community and robbed him of the success eventually experienced by his fellow tonal compatriots. Today, he is best …

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Divide And Conquer: Sec Discipline Of Litigation Attorneys, Julie Andersen Hill Jan 2009

Divide And Conquer: Sec Discipline Of Litigation Attorneys, Julie Andersen Hill

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The Securities and Exchange Commission "SEC" can investigate and discipline attorneys for "unethical or improper professional conduct" Although the SEC's disciplinary authority extends to all attorneys for more than 70 years it only investigated transactional attorneys Recently however the SEC announced that it is now investigating litigation attorneys for professional misconductThis Article examines the problems that arise because the SEC staff that is investigating and prosecuting a client is also allowed to investigate the professional conduct of the litigator representing that client The Article explains that the SEC's rules governing litigator conduct are unclear and therefore susceptible to agency abuse …

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Entrepreneurship And Law: Accessing The Power Of The Creative Impulse Foreword, Steven H. Hobbs Jan 2009

Entrepreneurship And Law: Accessing The Power Of The Creative Impulse Foreword, Steven H. Hobbs

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Proxy Records Of Paleohurricanes For The Western And Southern Caribbean, Terrence Allen Mccloskey Jan 2009

Proxy Records Of Paleohurricanes For The Western And Southern Caribbean, Terrence Allen Mccloskey

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation evaluates the hypothesis that hurricane activity levels in the North Atlantic during the late Holocene have been driven by latitudinal movements of the North Atlantic circulation system. Multi-millennial sedimentary proxy records, based on the occurrence of overwash clastic layers, provide clear evidence of abruptly alternating periods of hurricane landfall frequency for Nicaragua and Belize. Three Belizean transects exhibit an Active period (hyperactivity) occurring from ~2000-6000 cal yr BP, although dating is inconsistent across the transects. An Active period covering the last 500 years is found at one location. The Nicaraguan record, derived from three transects covering >90 km …

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Four Observations About Hate Speech Articles & Essays, Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic Jan 2009

Four Observations About Hate Speech Articles & Essays, Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic

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Characterization Of Porcine Adipose Tissue-Derived Stem Cells, Kellie J. Williams Jan 2009

Characterization Of Porcine Adipose Tissue-Derived Stem Cells, Kellie J. Williams

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Nuclear transfer (NT) results in low success rates and research has reported problems with the welfare of cloned animals produced. Evidence suggests the use of a less differentiated donor cell, such as a stem cell, may lead to an increase in the efficiency of the NT procedure. Stem cell characteristics must be clearly defined in order to isolate, identify and optimally culture potential donor cells. Stem cell characteristics such as self-renewal and differentiation have not been identified in stem cells from porcine adipose tissue, an easily attainable tissue resource. The phenotypic profile of cell surface proteins and chromosomal stability of …

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Three Essays On Environmental Issues Associated With Broiler Production In Louisiana, Nirmala Adhikari Devkota Jan 2009

Three Essays On Environmental Issues Associated With Broiler Production In Louisiana, Nirmala Adhikari Devkota

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The increasing trends of integrated and concentrated broiler production results in a serious threat to environment through excessive litter production and lack of its proper disposal. Production concentration in limited area is a major source of surface as well as ground water pollution. Nonpoint source pollution from broiler litter applied on land remains a major concern in Louisiana and elsewhere in Southeastern USA. This study examines alternative approaches to reduce pollution originating from broiler production. First, I evaluate why some producers adopt BMP faster than others and what kind of factors affect the time to adoption decision. The duration model …

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Assessing The Development Of High School Chemistry Students' Conceptual And Visual Understanding Of Dimensional Analysis Via Supplemental Use Of A Proprietary Interactive Software Program, Jennifer Tennille Pinder Ellis Jan 2009

Assessing The Development Of High School Chemistry Students' Conceptual And Visual Understanding Of Dimensional Analysis Via Supplemental Use Of A Proprietary Interactive Software Program, Jennifer Tennille Pinder Ellis

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This study was designed to evaluate the effects of the proprietary science education software, “Conversionoes,” on students' conceptual and visual understanding of dimensional analysis. The participants in the study were high school general chemistry students enrolled in two public high schools with different demographics (School A and School B) in the Chattanooga, Tennessee, metropolitan area. A mixed methods design was used in the data collection and analysis to provide a holistic view of the impact of the software on student learning, via a value-added design. The resulting qualitative and quantitative data indicated that the Conversionoes software enhanced the treatment groups’ …

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A Revaluation Of Cy Press Redux, Alberto B. Lopez Jan 2009

A Revaluation Of Cy Press Redux, Alberto B. Lopez

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With its enactment in 2, Section 413 of the Uniform Trust Code (UTC) introduced the most recent, and important, revision to a court's cy pres power since the nineteenth century. Section 413 expands the court's power to redistribute the assets of failing charitable trusts by transforming one of the traditional elements of cy pres into a presumption, abandoning the traditional cy pres redistribution standard, and providing an additional justification for the exercise of the power. Although scholars have scrutinized other portions of the UTC, the UTC's reconfigured cy pres has failed to provoke scholarly discussion even though it has been …

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The Interactive Effects Of Phosporus And Calcium On Phosphorus Requirement, Utilization, And Phytase Efficacy In Poultry, Syrena Powell Jan 2009

The Interactive Effects Of Phosporus And Calcium On Phosphorus Requirement, Utilization, And Phytase Efficacy In Poultry, Syrena Powell

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This research was conducted with broilers to investigate the interactive effects of P and Ca on P requirement, digestibility, utilization, and phytase efficacy. Each treatment had a minimum of 6 replications. One experiment with 3 trials was conducted to identify the nonphytate P (nPP) requirement of 0 to 14 d old broilers. The nPP levels fed ranged from 0.30 to 0.60% with a Ca:nPP of 2.22:1 or 1.9:1. Requirement estimates for 0 to 14 d ranged from 0.52 to 0.60% nPP. One experiment with 2 trials was conducted to identify the nPP requirement of 14 to 28 d old broilers. …

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"It Takes A Lot Out Of You": Ethnography Of Secondary English Teachers' Writing Pedagogy, Lisa F. Morales Jan 2009

"It Takes A Lot Out Of You": Ethnography Of Secondary English Teachers' Writing Pedagogy, Lisa F. Morales

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This study was conducted in two case-study teachers’ public middle school classrooms in south Louisiana and a survey in three public school districts. A qualitative research focus with the research design taken from work of Michael Patton’s (2002) Qualitative Research Evaluation Methods and James Spradley and David McCurdy’s (1975) Anthropology: The Cultural Perspective. The survey was developed from the work of Tourangeau, Rips, and Rasinski’s (2002) The Psychology of Survey Responses. The researcher assumed the role of participant observer for three months which resulted in two themes: first, traditional teaching methods in the teaching of writing, and secondly, teacher perceptions …

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The Structural Case For Vertical Maximalism, Tara Leigh Grove Jan 2009

The Structural Case For Vertical Maximalism, Tara Leigh Grove

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Many prominent jurists and scholars including those with outlooks as diverse as Chief Justice John Roberts and Cass Sunstein have recently advocated a "minimalist" approach to opinion writing at the Supreme Court They assert that the Court should issue narrow factbound decisions that do not resolve much beyond the case before the Court I argue that minimalism as employed by the current Supreme Court is in tension with the constitutional structure Article III and the Supremacy Clause along with historical evidence from the founding era suggest that the Constitution creates a hierarchical judiciary and gives the Court a "supreme" role …

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A Modular Approach To High Throughput Microsystems, Pin-Chuan Chen Jan 2009

A Modular Approach To High Throughput Microsystems, Pin-Chuan Chen

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

A modular high throughput microsystem was developed using microfabrication technology and nucleic acid analysis. The purpose of developing this microsystem is to identify acute infectious disease and prevent contagious outbreak in a matter of time. This microsystem included three major components, a reagent distribution device, a 96 CFPCR array, and a multi-zone thermal system, to efficiently amplify specific DNA fragments to determine the disease status or precisely pinpoint a disease from multiple patients. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is the key component in the nucleic acid analysis for disease because it can be used to amplify interested DNA fragments by repeatedly …

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Arthropod And Vertebrate Determinants For Horizontal Transmission Of Rickettsia Felis, Kathryn Elizabeth Reif Jan 2009

Arthropod And Vertebrate Determinants For Horizontal Transmission Of Rickettsia Felis, Kathryn Elizabeth Reif

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Rickettsia felis is a gram-negative bacterium predominantly described in the cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis. Since first described in 1990 in a commercial cat flea colony in the United States, R. felis has been detected in numerous arthropod species in 28 countries around the world. Additionally, as the etiologic agent of flea-borne rickettsiosis, R. felis can cause disease in humans, with patients presenting with clinical symptoms typical of rickettsial diseases including: fever, headache, and myalgia. Transmission of R. felis within flea colonies is predominantly via vertical (transovarial and transstadial) transmission and mechanisms of horizontal transmission are undescribed. Studies are needed to …

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Computational Studies Of The Properties Of Copper Oxide Clusters And The Reactions Of Phenol And Chlorinated Phenols With Copper Oxide Clusters, Gyun-Tack Bae Jan 2009

Computational Studies Of The Properties Of Copper Oxide Clusters And The Reactions Of Phenol And Chlorinated Phenols With Copper Oxide Clusters, Gyun-Tack Bae

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

We used ab initio simulations and calculations to study the structures and stabilities of copper oxide clusters, CunOn (n=1-8) and CuOn (n=1-6). The lowest energy structures of neutral and charged copper oxide clusters were determined using primarily the B3LYP/LANL2DZ model chemistry. In CunOn clusters with n=1-8, a transition from planar to nonplanar geometries occurs at n=4. In CuOn clusters with n=1-6, all geometries of neutral, positively, and negatively charged clusters are planar or near planar structures. Selected electronic properties, including binding energies, ionization energies, and electronic affinities, were calculated and examined as a function of n. Stabilities were examined by …

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Churches As First Amendment Institutions: Of Sovereignty And Spheres, Paul Horwitz Jan 2009

Churches As First Amendment Institutions: Of Sovereignty And Spheres, Paul Horwitz

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This Article offers a novel way of approaching the role of churches and other religious institutions within the First Amendment framework Beyond that it offers a broader organizing structure for the legal treatment of First Amendment institutions entities whose fundamental role in shaping and contributing to public discourse entitles them to substantial autonomy to organize and regulate themselves without state interference Drawing on the work of the neoCalvinist writer Abraham Kuyper it encourages us to think about churches and other First Amendment entities as sovereign spheres nonstate institutions whose authority is ultimately coequal to that of the state In the …

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Accurals Quality And Price Synchronicity, Joseph Atkins Johnston Jan 2009

Accurals Quality And Price Synchronicity, Joseph Atkins Johnston

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This study examines the relation between accruals quality and price synchronicity, a measure of the relative amount of firm-specific information reflected in price. Higher accruals quality imply better quality earnings news, hence, more firm-specific information is incorporated into price for firms with higher accruals quality. More firm-specific information reduces price synchronicity, hence, we hypothesize a negative relation between accruals quality and price synchronicity. On the other hand, literature shows that accruals quality reduces idiosyncratic volatility which tends to be negatively correlated with price synchronicity. If the latter effects dominate the relation between accruals quality and price synchronicity, we should observe …

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