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The Four Color Theorem, Jordan Stein
The Four Color Theorem, Jordan Stein
Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects
No abstract provided.
Perceptions Of Nonsuicidal Self-Injuring Behavior : Applications To Family Therapy For Adolescents, Laura J. Foley
Perceptions Of Nonsuicidal Self-Injuring Behavior : Applications To Family Therapy For Adolescents, Laura J. Foley
Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects
No abstract provided.
Gangs And Gang Activity In America: A Prevention Report, Portland State University. Criminology And Criminal Justice Senior Capstone
Gangs And Gang Activity In America: A Prevention Report, Portland State University. Criminology And Criminal Justice Senior Capstone
Criminology and Criminal Justice Senior Capstone Project
This report covers information on gangs, gang activity, and gang prevention. The report reveals information such as the history of gangs in the U.S., the definition of “gang,” data on prevalence, persons affected by gang activity, demographics of gangs and their members, criminal activity committed by gangs, gang hierarchical structure, prevention strategies, and effectiveness of gang prevention programs.
My Answers Are In The Ground, Jenna Randall
My Answers Are In The Ground, Jenna Randall
Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects
No abstract provided.
The Effects Of Cadmium On Neurogenesis And Apoptosis In The Adult Mouse Dentate Gyrus, Eric Heller
The Effects Of Cadmium On Neurogenesis And Apoptosis In The Adult Mouse Dentate Gyrus, Eric Heller
Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects
No abstract provided.
Development And Validation Of Biomechanical Models To Quantify Horse Back Forces At The Walk In Three Horse Breeds, Laxmi Raghunandana Kaidapuram
Development And Validation Of Biomechanical Models To Quantify Horse Back Forces At The Walk In Three Horse Breeds, Laxmi Raghunandana Kaidapuram
LSU Master's Theses
Therapeutic horseback riding is a common component of physical therapy programs. Quantification of the horse back forces will provide vital information to match therapeutic riders with equine partners. To meet this medical need, a model to quantify the horse back forces from ground reaction forces was developed to test the hypothesis that the forces transferred to a static weight on the horse’s back can be predicted given horse breed and weight. Simultaneous, real time kinetic, kinematic, and back force data on a static weight were collected from 7 adult horses: 3 thoroughbreds, 3 quarter horses, and 1 paso fino. An …
An Aloha State Of Mind: Performing Hawaiian Cultural Identities, Kirsten E. Ogden
An Aloha State Of Mind: Performing Hawaiian Cultural Identities, Kirsten E. Ogden
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
There are many Hawaiian identities currently in effect. This dissertation explores several representative and contested Hawaiian identities, and how these identities develop through key performances, plays, and other representational practices by Hawaiians and by Locals. Due to its unique situation as one of only two U.S. states formerly with its own government, and as one of only two U.S. states not connected to the main land-mass of the United States, Hawaiian identity is complicated by multiple factors: sanitized historical constructions, sovereignty, intermingling ethnic identities, tourism, and reclaimed cultural practices. Additionally, Hawaiians as a native people hold a unique place in …
Fabrication Of Organosilane Nanostructures As Selective Sites For Surface Chemical Reactions, Kathie Lee Lusker
Fabrication Of Organosilane Nanostructures As Selective Sites For Surface Chemical Reactions, Kathie Lee Lusker
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Naturally self-assembled mesospheres provide a practical route for controlling the arrangement of materials on surfaces at the nanoscale. Periodic arrays of well-defined nanostructures can be produced with different nanomaterials and interpattern spacings. Results presented in this dissertation demonstrate particle lithography methods developed for fabricating arrays of organosilane nanostructures. Surfaces were designed for the selective deposition of polymers and nanoparticles to produce multicomponent nanopatterns. The approaches for surface patterning provide new directions for studying surface chemistry at the molecular-level, and have practical application for emerging photovoltaic thin film technologies. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) provides unique capabilities for molecular visualization and ultrasensitive …
Structural And Functional Insights Of Human 5-Lipoxygenase, Nathaniel Carson Gilbert
Structural And Functional Insights Of Human 5-Lipoxygenase, Nathaniel Carson Gilbert
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This work describes the structure of human 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX) (Gilbert, Bartlett et al. 2011) and the techniques required to ascertain the structure. 5-LOX is a notoriously unstable enzyme with important biological functions. The human 5-LOX has been implicated in many disease states including asthma, atherosclerosis and cancer. Part of 5-LOX biology is the inherent instability of the enzyme, which is thought to help regulate the production of its pro-inflammatory products, the leukotrienes. Our objective was stabilizing the enzyme for in vitro studies without affecting catalytic fidelity. I was able to quantitate stabilizing and destabilizing point mutations of 5-LOX by thermal …
I Can Has Thesis? A Linguistic Analysis Of Lolspeak, Jordan Lefler
I Can Has Thesis? A Linguistic Analysis Of Lolspeak, Jordan Lefler
LSU Master's Theses
Lolspeak, which I characterize as an internet dialect of English that is used in conjunction with images of cats, exhibits distinctive variations and patterns which differ from those of standard English. Lolspeak has influenced other language use and may have a significant impact on the English language, due in part to the internet’s role in the evolution of English (Crystal “Language and the Internet,” 2006:26-27). To approach this data, I created a multi-modal discourse transcription technique for analyzing Lolspeak utterances within the context of their images based on Grounded Theory (Glaser and Strauss “The Discovery of Grounded Theory” 2007:9). I …
Comparison Of Different Integral Histogram Based Tracking Algorithms, Sriharsha Atluri
Comparison Of Different Integral Histogram Based Tracking Algorithms, Sriharsha Atluri
LSU Master's Theses
Object tracking is an important subject in computer vision with a wide range of applications – security and surveillance, motion-based recognition, driver assistance systems, and human-computer interaction. The proliferation of high-powered computers, the availability of high quality and inexpensive video cameras, and the increasing need for automated video analysis have generated a great deal of interest in object tracking algorithms. Tracking is usually performed in the context of high-level applications that require the location and/or shape of the object in every frame. Research is being conducted in the development of object tracking algorithms over decades and a number of approaches …
Rapid Identification Of Oil Contaminated Soils Using Visible Near Infrared Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy, Somsubhra Chakraborty
Rapid Identification Of Oil Contaminated Soils Using Visible Near Infrared Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy, Somsubhra Chakraborty
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Initially, 46 petroleum contaminated and non-contaminated soil samples were collected and scanned using visible near-infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (VisNIR DRS) at three combinations of moisture content and pretreatment. The VisNIR spectra of soil samples were used to predict total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) content using partial least squares (PLS) regression and boosted regression tree (BRT) models. The field-moist intact scan proved best for predicting TPH content with a validation r2 of 0.64 and relative percent difference (RPD) of 1.70. Those 46 samples were used to calibrate a penalized spline (PS) model. Subsequently, the PS model was used to predict soil TPH …
Data-Aware Workflow Scheduling In Heterogeneous Distributed Systems, Dengpan Yin
Data-Aware Workflow Scheduling In Heterogeneous Distributed Systems, Dengpan Yin
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Data transferring in scientific workflows gradually attracts more attention due to large amounts of data generated by complex scientific workflows will significantly increase the turnaround time of the whole workflow. It is almost impossible to make an optimal or approximate optimal scheduling for the end-to-end workflow without considering the intermediate data movement. In order to reduce the complexity of the workflow-scheduling problem, most researches done so far are constrained by many unrealistic assumptions, which result in non-optimal scheduling in practice. A constraint imposed by most researchers in their algorithms is that a computation site can only start the execution of …
Development Of A Monte Carlo Based Correction Strategy For A Tg-43 Based Brachytherapy Treatment Planning System To Account For Applicator Inhomogeneities, Bobby Chon Mathews
Development Of A Monte Carlo Based Correction Strategy For A Tg-43 Based Brachytherapy Treatment Planning System To Account For Applicator Inhomogeneities, Bobby Chon Mathews
LSU Master's Theses
Purpose: The purpose of this work was to investigate the use of pre-calculated Monte Carlo (MC) ovoid and source-based attenuation-correction factors that would correct a commercially-available brachytherapy treatment planning system (TPS) generated plan in order to account for any dosimetric effects due to the presence of intracavitary brachytherapy (ICBT) applicators during treatment delivery. Methods: A MC model of an ICBT CT-MR compatible ovoid applicator set was confirmed utilizing radiochromic film (RCF). MC was used to simulate dose distributions resulting from eight source-dwell-positions within the ICBT applicator. Also, the American Association of Physicist in Medicine Task Group 43 Report (AAPM TG-43) …
Soft Sediment Relay Zones: A High Resolution Seismic Survey Livingston Parish, Louisiana, Erin T. Elliott
Soft Sediment Relay Zones: A High Resolution Seismic Survey Livingston Parish, Louisiana, Erin T. Elliott
LSU Master's Theses
The southern coast of the United States, bordering the Gulf of Mexico, is home to several down-to-the-south, listric, normal fault systems striking parallel to the coast. One of these, the Baton Rouge–Tepetate Fault System located in southern Louisiana, consists of a series of near-surface, reactivated growth faults and relay ramps– a broad area of ductile strain, with contemporaneous sedimentation. Evidence of recent fault and relay ramp movement is seen in surficial fault line scarps and offset roads. This thesis utilizes two near-surface (<500 >m), high-resolution (10 - 300 Hz), continuous seismic reflection profiles (360 m and 480 m long, 3 …
Catalytic Process For The Conversion Of Synthesis Gas To Ethanol For Use As An Alternative Fuel, Nitin Kumar
Catalytic Process For The Conversion Of Synthesis Gas To Ethanol For Use As An Alternative Fuel, Nitin Kumar
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Higher alcohols are increasing as a proportion of the transportation fuel market, and can be used as neat fuels, or as blends with conventional fuels. For a number of reasons, these C2+-alcohols will be of interest in the foreseeable future. Large-scale production of higher alcohols will likely be carried out via syngas, which can be produced from a number of feedstocks, including coal, natural gas and biomass. Rhodium-based catalysts have been found to be the most active/selective for higher alcohols. However, the literature shows that the yields of C2+-alcohols that can be achieved with current catalysts, even the most active/selective, …
From Global To Polycentric Climate Governance, Daniel H. Cole
From Global To Polycentric Climate Governance, Daniel H. Cole
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Global governance institutions for climate change, such as those established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, have so far failed to make a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions. Following the lead of Elinor Ostrom, this paper offers an alternative theoretical framework for reconstructing global climate policy in accordance with the polycentric approach to governance pioneered in the early 1960s by Vincent Ostrom, Charles Tiebout, and Robert Warren. Instead of a thoroughly top-down global regime, in which lower levels of government simply carry out the mandates of international negotiators, a polycentric approach provides …
Rights, Needs, And The Creation Of Ethical Community, Natalie Susan Gaines
Rights, Needs, And The Creation Of Ethical Community, Natalie Susan Gaines
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Despite a half-century of dominance by the rights discourse, the supremacy of rights in theories of human obligation has recently come under attack from political theorists. Though scholars have questioned the ability of rights to explain satisfactorily the responsibility we have for the well-being of others, there are few viable alternatives offered. In this dissertation, I argue that a theory of needs provides a better explanation of the intellectual and moral foundations of obligation. Human need is deeply rooted in subjective potentiality, but studies in human psychology have also provided an increasingly universal picture of the needs human beings experience. …
Measurement Of Spatial Variation Of Density Of Compacted Powder Using Synchrotron Microtomography, Yi Yang
Measurement Of Spatial Variation Of Density Of Compacted Powder Using Synchrotron Microtomography, Yi Yang
LSU Master's Theses
This research considers density change in powder metallurgy when compacting a powder blend in a die. In order to provide insights into particle behavior during compaction, atomized aluminum powders with an average particle size of 100 µm were used in two different compaction configurations. The compaction dies are cylindrical in shape: compaction configuration I displays an upper punch, a die, a lower punch, and a spacer. Compaction configuration II displays an upper punch, two dies, a lower punch, and a spacer with different geometry. The Synchrotron Microtomography scans were conducted on both compaction configurations. For compaction configuration I, the scan …
Framing Empire: Victorian Literature, Hollywood International, And Postcolonial Film Adaptation, Jerod Ra'del Hollyfield
Framing Empire: Victorian Literature, Hollywood International, And Postcolonial Film Adaptation, Jerod Ra'del Hollyfield
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation examines how adaptations of Victorian literature made in Hollywood by postcolonial filmmakers contend with the legacy of British imperialism and Hollywood’s role as a multinational corporate entity. Highlighting the increased number of postcolonial filmmakers adapting Victorian literature in Hollywood, the project demonstrates how film adaptation has become a strategy for, in the words of Salman Rushdie, “writing back” to imperial powers. Placing such adaptations of Victorian literature within the tradition of postcolonial rewritings of classic British texts, I bridge fidelity criticism, the auteur theory, and contrapuntal readings of source texts with studies of political economy in order to …
The Contribution Of Implicit Stereotypes To The Overrepresentation Of African Americans In The Special Education Category Of Emotional Disturbance, Tai A. Collins
LSU Master's Theses
The overrepresentation of African Americans in special education is a problem that has plagued the field since its inception, yet very little progress has been made in alleviating the issue. The problem is especially troubling because of the host of negative outcomes associated with special education in general, as well as placing African American students into special education specifically. The current study sought to examine the contribution of implicit racial stereotypes to the overrepresentation problem. Participants were randomly assigned to conditions where they viewed vignettes about either an African American or Caucasian problem student, after which they completed a questionnaire …
The Story Of Kleppe V. New Mexico: The Sagebrush Rebellion As Un-Cooperative Federalism, Robert L. Fischman, Jeremiah Williamson
The Story Of Kleppe V. New Mexico: The Sagebrush Rebellion As Un-Cooperative Federalism, Robert L. Fischman, Jeremiah Williamson
Articles by Maurer Faculty
The story of Kleppe v. New Mexico dramatizes how assertion of federal power advancing national conservation objectives collided with traditional, local economic interests on public lands in the 1970s. This article connects that history with current approaches to natural resources federalism. New Mexico challenged the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, which diminished both state jurisdiction and rancher influence over public rangelands. In response, the Supreme Court resoundingly approved federal authority to reprioritize uses of the public resources, including wildlife, and spurred a lasting backlash in the West. Further legislation passed in the wake of Kleppe transformed this unrest into …
An Euler Solver For Nonlinear Water Waves Using A Modified Staggered Grid And Gaussian Quadrature Approach, Qi Fan
LSU Master's Theses
A structured, finite-volume Euler solver for non-hydrostatic, free surface flows is developed to simulate coastal nonlinear dispersive water waves. A semi-implicit projection method which splits the pressure term into hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic parts is employed. A vertically shifted, staggered grid is designed to accommodate a new Gaussian discharge calculator and to facilitate the enforcement of a non-hydrostatic free-surface boundary condition. The Gaussian discharge calculator on the shifted grid increases the dispersion accuracy compared to traditional approaches that calculate discharges on a regular staggered grid. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the improvements of these methods.
An Examination Of Errors Of Coherence In Adolescent Sentence Combining, Ginger Gunter Collins
An Examination Of Errors Of Coherence In Adolescent Sentence Combining, Ginger Gunter Collins
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Young adolescents should be able to write organized multi-paragraph compositions that develop a central idea and unfold in logical and sequential order, unified through the use of transitional words and phrases. In other words, the compositions should not just consist of a string of related sentences, but represent a dynamic text that has coherence. It is important that speech-language pathologists develop quick and reliable methods for assessing coherence to aid in making data driven decisions and progress monitoring consistent with principles of Responsiveness to Intervention. Yet, the holistic quality of coherence makes it difficult to assess, both within a composition …
Pigeon : Precision Integrated Geographical Navigation, Evan Andrist
Pigeon : Precision Integrated Geographical Navigation, Evan Andrist
Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects
No abstract provided.
Gender Bias In Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Referrals For Treatment, Stephanie Behrens
Gender Bias In Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Referrals For Treatment, Stephanie Behrens
Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects
No abstract provided.
Interpretation And Expressive Imagery In The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto On Double Bass: Transcribed By Yung-Chiao Wei, Min-Tzu Chao
Interpretation And Expressive Imagery In The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto On Double Bass: Transcribed By Yung-Chiao Wei, Min-Tzu Chao
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The purpose of this research paper is to show the interpretation of the Chinese piece—The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto—through expressing imagery. The concerto is composed by Chen Gang (陳鋼) and He Zhan-hao (何占豪) in 1959. In 2004, Yung-Chiao Wei, a double bass professor at Louisiana State University transcribed the piece for double bass. It is a very useful repertoire for double bass players to experience Chinese music through the plot’s expressing imagery. The Chinese musical language is different from Western music language in the concept of pentatonic scale, tone color, and tempo. I believe that double bass players can effectively …
Molecular Dynamics Of Ionic Liquids In Nanoporous Electrodes, Nav Nidhi Rajput
Molecular Dynamics Of Ionic Liquids In Nanoporous Electrodes, Nav Nidhi Rajput
LSU Master's Theses
Molecular dynamics simulations were performed to investigate the structural and dynamical properties of ionic liquid (IL) [EMIM+][TFMSI-] confined inside slit-like graphite pores. ILs are salts composed of an organic cation and an organic or inorganic anion with melting point below 100ºC. Their unique properties such as great thermal and chemical stability have gained them immense attention in recent years. The main goal of this research is to understand how molecular level properties of ILs are affected by the properties of the nanoporous materials. The results obtained in this work indicate that pore size has a profound effect on structural and …
Development Of Self-Determination In Youth With Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities In 4-H Programming: A Qualitative Study, Myra Jo Monroe
Development Of Self-Determination In Youth With Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities In 4-H Programming: A Qualitative Study, Myra Jo Monroe
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine how 4-H programming may support positive youth development in youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Using Wehmeyer‟s Functional Model of Self-Determination as the theoretical framework, sixteen youth aged 14-21 years in an intact vocational training classroom engaged in a semester-long program utilizing direct instruction and environment theorized by Wehmeyer to enhance the emergence of self-determination in youth with IDD. This study drew from the fundamental principle that a person who was self-determined exhibited behaviors that reflected certain essential characteristics (Wehmeyer & Field, 2007). The study utilized data collected from …
Island Hunting: A Field Guide, Kit French
Island Hunting: A Field Guide, Kit French
LSU Master's Theses
The Island Hunter Association and this field guide are elaborate constructions that assist you in looking at familiar places in a new way. Following the methods and procedures I’ve outlined in this field guide you will become an expert in tracking the many incarnations of Islands. Fact and fiction, real and psychological, Islands are all around.