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Weather Radar Image Based Forecasting Using Joint Series Prediction, Sravanthi Kattekola Dec 2010

Weather Radar Image Based Forecasting Using Joint Series Prediction, Sravanthi Kattekola

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Accurate rainfall forecasting using weather radar imagery has always been a crucial and predominant task in the field of meteorology [1], [2], [3] and [4]. Competitive Radial Basis Function Neural Networks (CRBFNN) [5] is one of the methods used for weather radar image based forecasting. Recently, an alternative CRBFNN based approach [6] was introduced to model the precipitation events. The difference between the techniques presented in [5] and [6] is in the approach used to model the rainfall image. Overall, it was shown that the modified CRBFNN approach [6] is more computationally efficient compared to the CRBFNN approach [5]. However, …

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The Making Of Audubon Park: Competing Ideologies For Public Space, Nels Abrams Dec 2010

The Making Of Audubon Park: Competing Ideologies For Public Space, Nels Abrams

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The emergence of Progressivism at the beginning of the twentieth century influenced many aspects of American society. One of those aspects was urban parks. In the latter half of the nineteenth century Frederick Law Olmsted led a nationwide implementation of "Victorian" parks. These parks featured broad expanses of turf, waterways, and trees. Olmsted and the other Victorian park leaders designed the parks to cultivate Victorian values of self-restraint and independence among the citizenry. With the rise of Progressivism the ideals of the middle class changed. Led by Theodore Roosevelt, millions of Americans embraced the "strenuous life" and its emphasis on …

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"The Free State Of New Orleans": Local Law Enforcement And Illegal Gambling In The 1920s, Edward John Appel Jr. Dec 2010

"The Free State Of New Orleans": Local Law Enforcement And Illegal Gambling In The 1920s, Edward John Appel Jr.

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines illegal gambling in New Orleans and surrounding parishes in the 1920s. It will focus on a series of raids mounted by the Louisiana National Guard to end illegal gambling in both St. Bernard and Jefferson Parishes in August and November of 1928 and again in February of 1929. Corrupt leadership and public toleration allowed gambling houses in both St. Bernard and Jefferson parishes to operate openly for nearly an entire decade. Pressure from economic, religious and civic organizations within the city of New Orleans forced newly elected Governor Huey P. Long to take swift action in the …

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Barely There Tales: A Phenomenological Study Of Stories Told By Pre-Service Teachers, Cynthia Ybos Dec 2010

Barely There Tales: A Phenomenological Study Of Stories Told By Pre-Service Teachers, Cynthia Ybos

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Teacher stories were once relegated to informal gatherings but more recently this aspect of teacher development is being carefully studied in more formalized settings because it is believed to be an important part of teacher development. New ways are being sought to use various aspects of storytelling to help pre-service teachers develop important teaching skills through reflection on experience, dialogue journals, case studies and autobiography. Despite these efforts at the university level, it is especially difficult for pre-service teachers to integrate and apply theories from their methods courses to actual classroom practice. Less effort has been focused on storytelling processes …

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Albert Baldwin Wood, The Screw Pump, And The Modernization Of New Orleans, Nicole Romagossa Dec 2010

Albert Baldwin Wood, The Screw Pump, And The Modernization Of New Orleans, Nicole Romagossa

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Albert Baldwin Wood and his screw pumps modernized New Orleans by bringing flood-free streets and cleaner water to the city while providing the potential for growth by pumping swamp lands dry. While Wood was never part of the local Progressive movement, his work with the pumps fit with Progressive initiatives for modernization. At first, the screw pumps removed rain water from the streets. Then New Orleans expanded the drainage to include sewerage removal and water purification. The pumps successfully drained thousands of acres of land once considered uninhabitable swamp land. This additional land extended New Orleans city limits but also …

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Place Matters: An Evolutionary Approach To Annie Proulx's "The Half-Skinned Steer"And "Wamsutter Wolf", Erin Walker Dec 2010

Place Matters: An Evolutionary Approach To Annie Proulx's "The Half-Skinned Steer"And "Wamsutter Wolf", Erin Walker

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

In Annie Proulx's interview with Charlie Rose, she states that her stories come "from place." Ecocriticism has been the predominant lens with which to understand Proulx's work; however, ecocriticism's nebulous tenets and theoretical deficiencies perpetuate sentimental pastoralism of geographical determinism. The shaping impact of Wyoming's environment in Proulx's work lends itself to an evolutionary perspective. Proulx's fiction, like evolutionary theory, examines humanity's unique, reciprocal relationship with nature. The evolutionary approach provides readers with a framework to understand the human relationship to our environment, a theme Proulx's work examines. This approach also augments current criticism that notes the importance of place …

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She Vs. Shadow, Danielle Blasko Dec 2010

She Vs. Shadow, Danielle Blasko

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Where The Dead Remain, Bryan Camp Dec 2010

Where The Dead Remain, Bryan Camp

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Where the Dead Remain is a murder mystery set in a Post-Katrina New Orleans where the gods, magic and monsters of various world mythologies actually exist. The story follows a week in the life of Jude Duboisson, a once magician who is struggling with the loss of his magic and the life he had known in the wake of the storm, as he is pulled out of his torpor and into the affairs of the mighty once again. He is tasked with discovering who murdered Dodge Renaud, the fortune god of New Orleans. What he discovers, though, are some surprising …

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Wider Than A Mile, Natalie Parker-Lawrence Dec 2010

Wider Than A Mile, Natalie Parker-Lawrence

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Exploring Narcissism, Psychopathy, And Machiavellianism In Youth: An Examination Of Associations With Antisocial Behavior And Aggression, Katherine S. L. Lau Dec 2010

Exploring Narcissism, Psychopathy, And Machiavellianism In Youth: An Examination Of Associations With Antisocial Behavior And Aggression, Katherine S. L. Lau

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This study sought to explore the differential associations of CU traits, narcissistic traits, and Machiavellian traits with overt aggression, relational aggression, delinquency, behavioral dysregulation, and emotional dysregulation in a community sample of boys and girls (ages 11-17). Results indicated that the three personality traits were significantly correlated with each other, yet distinct. CU traits, narcissistic traits, and Machiavellian traits demonstrated different unique associations with behavior problems. Specifically, narcissistic traits showed the strongest unique associations with overt aggression, relational aggression, behavioral dysregulation, and emotional dysregulation. CU traits showed the second strongest unique associations with overt aggression, delinquency and behavioral dysregulation, but …

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The Effects Of Rhes On Opioid Analgesia, Franklin Lee Dec 2010

The Effects Of Rhes On Opioid Analgesia, Franklin Lee

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Rhes (Ras homolog enriched in striatum) has been identified as a novel monomeric G-protein involved in dopaminergic and other signaling in the striatum. Given the many effects of opioids that involve striatal circuitry, genetically engineered mice that are incapable of making Rhes (rhes-/-) and their control littermates (rhes+/+) were subjected to behavioral tests to determine if any differences existed in opioid analgesia, tolerance, withdrawal, reward, and locomotion. Rhes-/- mice showed an increased opioid mediated analgesia, along with an absence of tolerance and decrease in withdrawal when compared with rhes+/+ littermates. However, no significant changes were seen in opioid induced locomotor …

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Forensic Reconstruction Of Fragmented Variable Bitrate Mp3 Files, Abhilash Sajja Dec 2010

Forensic Reconstruction Of Fragmented Variable Bitrate Mp3 Files, Abhilash Sajja

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

File carving is a technique used to recover data from a digital device without the help of file system metadata. The current file carvers use techniques such as using a list of header and footer values and key word searching to retrieve the information specific to a file type. These techniques tend to fail when the files to be recovered are fragmented. Recovering the fragmented files is one of the primary challenges faced by file carving. In this research we focus on Variable Bit Rate (VBR) MP3 files. MP3 is one of the most widely used file formats for storing …

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Finding The Man, Husband, Physician & Father: Creating The Role Of Doc Gibbs In Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Patrick Payne Dec 2010

Finding The Man, Husband, Physician & Father: Creating The Role Of Doc Gibbs In Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Patrick Payne

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis serves as documentation of my efforts to define accurately my creative process as an actor in creating the role of Doc Gibbs in Our Town by Thornton Wilder. This includes research, rehearsal journal, character analysis and evaluation of my performance. Our Town was produced by the University of New Orleans Department of Film, Theatre and Communication Arts in New Orleans, Louisiana. The play was performed in the Robert E. Nims Theatre of the Performing Arts Center at 7:30 pm on the evenings of April 22 through April 24, 2010 and April 29 through May 1, 2010 as well …

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Nonattribution Properties Of Jpeg Quantization Tables, Punnya Tuladhar Dec 2010

Nonattribution Properties Of Jpeg Quantization Tables, Punnya Tuladhar

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

In digital forensics, source camera identification of digital images has drawn attention in recent years. An image does contain information of its camera and/or editing software somewhere in it. But the interest of this research is to find manufacturers (henceforth will be called make and model) of a camera using only the header information, such as quantization table and huffman table, of the JPEG encoding. Having done research on around 110, 000 images, we reached to state that "For all practical purposes, using quantization and huffman tables alone to predict a camera make and model isn't a viable approach". We …

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Spiral Welded Pipe Piles For Structures In Southeastern Louisiana, Leeland Richard Dec 2010

Spiral Welded Pipe Piles For Structures In Southeastern Louisiana, Leeland Richard

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

In an effort to obtain 100-year level hurricane protection for southeastern Louisiana, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has implemented design guidelines that both levees and structures shall be designed to. Historically, USACE has used concrete piles or steel H-piles as the foundations for these structures. Because of the magnitude of obtaining 100-year level hurricane protection, limited resources, and a condensed timeline, spiral welded pipe piles can be manufactured as an alternative to either the concrete piles or steel H-piles. This research will provide the necessary background for understanding pile foundations, will compare the behaviors of spiral welded pipe …

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An Underwater Channel Model And Chirp Slope Keying Modulation Scheme Performance, Brice Zoh Dec 2010

An Underwater Channel Model And Chirp Slope Keying Modulation Scheme Performance, Brice Zoh

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Chirp-Slope Keying (CSK) is a new and innovative digital modulation scheme for underwater data transmission. The underwater environment brings up several challenges to the manufacturing and operation of communication systems. This thesis shows through analysis and simulations the effectiveness of Chirp-Slope Keying (CSK) in providing a satisfying performance in underwater communication. The experiment consists of modulating a chirp slope by binary numbers (representing our data). '0' is represented by a linear- down chirp and '1' is represented by a linear-up chirp. The received data is first processed by a correlator receiver. Then, the detection of either binary symbol is obtained …

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In The Middle, Nicole Pugh Dec 2010

In The Middle, Nicole Pugh

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

A woman just getting settled in New Orleans with her fiancé is uprooted by Hurricane Katrina. She spends the two months after the hurricane in various parts of Louisiana trying to pick up the pieces of her uprooted reality. Along the way, she encounters ordinary people who act as inspirations and is also reminded of her deceased Chinese grandmother, whom she was care-giver to before she died and whose stories about life in China and the US parallel the woman´s own life during the post-Katrina months of vulnerability and change.

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The Petrochemical Industrial Complex Of The St. Charles Parish Industrial Corridor And Its Influence On Urbanization Patterns, Darin Acosta Dec 2010

The Petrochemical Industrial Complex Of The St. Charles Parish Industrial Corridor And Its Influence On Urbanization Patterns, Darin Acosta

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the impact that the petrochemical industry has had on the built environment of Norco, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. Previous scholars have suggested that heavy industry in Norco consumes a majority of the Mississippi River's natural levee, which is the most elevated and flood resistant land in the town. In order to test these observations, the author of this thesis has collected parcel-level land use data in Norco to determine the flood hazard and topographical characteristics of these various land uses. Spatial calculations, run using Geographic Information System software, have determined that heavy industrial land uses in Norco …

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An Examination Of Faculty Satisfaction At Two-Year Higher Education Institutions, Nancy Kinchen Dec 2010

An Examination Of Faculty Satisfaction At Two-Year Higher Education Institutions, Nancy Kinchen

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Part-time faculty members represent the majority of faculty at public two-year postsecondary institutions. Utilizing part-time faculty enables two-year institutions to control their instructional costs and maintain scheduling flexibility. However, part-time faculty are diverse in regards to their employment preference, some prefer part-time employment while others would prefer a full-time position. Since retaining and attracting qualified and experienced part-time faculty members is essential, it is imperative that their satisfaction be understood. This study uses the 2004 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF: 04) to study faculty satisfaction. Faculty was disaggregated according to employment preference into full-time, involuntary part-time, and voluntary part-time …

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Resilience Characteristics Of Master's-Level Counseling Students, J. Raul Machuca Dec 2010

Resilience Characteristics Of Master's-Level Counseling Students, J. Raul Machuca

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Resilience characteristics typically have been studied among children and adolescents. A new line of research on resilience is focused on exploring the resilience characteristics of adults exposed to short and long-term adversity. In the present study, 585 master's-level counseling students responded to the Resilience Scale (Wagnild & Young, 1993). The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between counseling students' level of resilience and specific background variables (age, gender, marital status, ethnicity, education, income, employment, living situation, sexual orientation, and country of origin), counselor-education program variables (primary field of study, number of credits taken, academic status, professional affiliations, …

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Perceptions Of The Glass Ceiling Effect In Community Colleges, Cheryl Myers Dec 2010

Perceptions Of The Glass Ceiling Effect In Community Colleges, Cheryl Myers

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the existence of a glass ceiling effect within community colleges by examining faculty, staff and administrator's perceptions of a glass ceiling as it relates to the advancement of women at their institutions. This was done by using a cross-sectional survey administered electronically to faculty, staff and administrators in community colleges in the United States who were members of the American Association of Community Colleges. Four hundred fifty seven participants provided responses for the study. Results of ANOVA of perceptions of facilitators and barriers to advancement revealed there was a significant difference in …

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Sensation Seeking And A Real World Stressor: Endocrine And Physiological Effects, Amber Allison Dec 2010

Sensation Seeking And A Real World Stressor: Endocrine And Physiological Effects, Amber Allison

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

We attempted to identify the psychobiological mechanisms that mediate the process by which the sensation seeking trait culminates in behavior. We used the Sensation Seeking Scales to assess the SS trait in individuals who expressed a desire to skydive. We obtained measures of autonomic (heart rate) and endocrine (salivary cortisol) activity before, during and after skydiving. To distinguish the contribution of novelty, we compared novices (N=29) to experienced jumpers (N=15). All jumpers exhibited HPA-axis activation; novices exhibited a prolonged response and more extreme peak in cortisol compared to experienced jumpers, suggesting that novelty contributes to an intense pattern of stress …

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Assessing The Psychosocial Needs Of Individuals Diagnosed With Cancer, By Age And Sex On Interest In Support Group Attendance, Mary Rodrigue Dec 2010

Assessing The Psychosocial Needs Of Individuals Diagnosed With Cancer, By Age And Sex On Interest In Support Group Attendance, Mary Rodrigue

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

There are several psychosocial factors that can affect an individual diagnosed with cancer (Holland, 2003), and directly addressing these issues with patients is important for their overall care and quality of life (Holland, 1998). The practice of psycho-oncology has been designed to assess these psychosocial issues with patients and their caregivers by means of outlets such as support groups to facilitate a wellness model of care (Myers & Sweeney, 2008). Using the demographics of age and sex, I plan to analyze and identify what psychosocial needs are significant to individuals diagnosed with cancer, and compare the sex and age of …

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Retention And Graduation Rates As Performance Indicators In 2-Year And 4-Year Postsecondary Institutions, Lisa Watson Dec 2010

Retention And Graduation Rates As Performance Indicators In 2-Year And 4-Year Postsecondary Institutions, Lisa Watson

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The focus of this dissertation is on performance indicators – specifically, retention and graduation indicators - that impact allocation of the ever-dwindling public sources of money. Decreasing revenue trends make understanding the performance indicators that are often used to fund postsecondary institutions very important. There is a significant amount of literature on funding, types of funding, and performance indicators used in funding; however, there is very little literature on quantitative differences on standard performance indicators in 2-year and 4- year postsecondary institutions. The purpose of this study is to look at retention and graduation rates for part-time and full-time students …

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Prey Selection By Young Lemon Sharks (Negaprion Brevirostris) At Chandeleur Island Nursery Habitats With A Comparison To Three Other Co-Occurring Shark Species, Christopher Davis Dec 2010

Prey Selection By Young Lemon Sharks (Negaprion Brevirostris) At Chandeleur Island Nursery Habitats With A Comparison To Three Other Co-Occurring Shark Species, Christopher Davis

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The Chandeleur Islands (Louisiana) contain nursery habitats for lemon sharks that provide abundant prey and protection from predation. Other local shark species (Atlantic sharpnose, bull, and blacktip sharks) co-occur with lemon sharks in the same region, including the nearby Biloxi Marshes. To better assess how lemon sharks use these nursery habitats, I measured diet and prey availability of young of the year and juvenile lemon sharks from 2009 to 2010. Young lemon sharks at the Chandeleur Islands have a relatively reduced diet breadth in comparison to those from nurseries in Bimini (Bahamas) and the Florida Keys. At the Chandeleur Islands, …

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Effects Of Brain Injury Severity And Effort On Neuropsychological Tests Of Attention, Brian Guise Dec 2010

Effects Of Brain Injury Severity And Effort On Neuropsychological Tests Of Attention, Brian Guise

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Attention impairment is one of the most common complaints following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Multiple studies have shown that performance on neuropsychological tests of attention is affected by many factors, including injury severity and effort. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of injury severity on neuropsychological tests across different domains of attention while controlling for effort. The domains of focused attention, selective attention, divided attention, sustained attention, and working memory were assessed by performance on the Digit Span Forward subtest, the Stroop Color Word Test, the Trail Making Test, the Conners' Continuous Performance Test - II, …

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Street Art: Its Display In Public Space And Issues Within A Municipality, Katherine Gunnell Dec 2010

Street Art: Its Display In Public Space And Issues Within A Municipality, Katherine Gunnell

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Hip Hop graffiti has been marking our urban landscapes for decades. However street art, a much less researched topic, has claimed notoriety in recent years. Much of the existing research groups hip-hop graffiti, gang graffiti and street art together and calls for a uniform response from communities, city officials and law enforcement. While street artists have made their mark in the urban landscapes of the United States as well as internationally, it is important to define the terms "street art"and "graffiti" and where they deviate from one another in order for cities to begin to address these expressions with any …

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Eulalie De Mandeville: An Ethnohistorical Investigation Challenging Notions Of Placage In New Orleans As Revealed Through The Lived Experiences Of A Free Woman Of Color, Penny Johnson Dec 2010

Eulalie De Mandeville: An Ethnohistorical Investigation Challenging Notions Of Placage In New Orleans As Revealed Through The Lived Experiences Of A Free Woman Of Color, Penny Johnson

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This ethnohistorical work investigates plaçage through the case of Eulalie de Mandeville, a free woman of color and both the daughter of Pierre de Marigny de Mandeville, one of the largest land owners in New Orleans, and the sister of Bernard Marigny, land owner and founder of the Faubourg Marigny, a historic neighborhood in New Orleans. Eulalie's connection to the de Marigny de Mandeville family led to gifts of money and real estate from Pierre, Bernard, and her grandmother, Madame de Mandeville. She used these gifts to not only secure financing for a successful retail business, but also to finance …

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The Facets Of Hostile Attributional Bias: The Importance Of Aggression Subtypes And Provocateur Motivation, Melissa Kunimatsu Dec 2010

The Facets Of Hostile Attributional Bias: The Importance Of Aggression Subtypes And Provocateur Motivation, Melissa Kunimatsu

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The current study examined the association of hostile attributional bias (HAB) with the functions (proactive and reactive) and subtypes (reactive relational and reactive overt) of aggression as well as with perceived provocateur motivation (proactive or reactive) in a high school sample (mean age = 16.51; 50% male; 31% Caucasian). Revisions to a measure of HAB were made both in administration (adding animations/narration) and content (adding perceived provocateur motivation questions). Results indicated that the animation/narration measure showed comparable internal consistency reliability to the written and displayed an increased ability to predict total aggression. However, a unique relationship between HAB and reactive …

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Abnormalities Caused By Left Bundle Branch Block, James F. Ginter, Patrick Loftis Dec 2010

Abnormalities Caused By Left Bundle Branch Block, James F. Ginter, Patrick Loftis

Physician Assistant Studies Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

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