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Analysis Of Marine Sediment By Chemical Signatures And Loss-On Ignition To Discover Evidence Of Ancient Maya Activities At Site 74, Paynes Creek Salt Works, Belize, Kobi Weaver

LSU Master's Theses

In this thesis, archaeological sediment chemistry, loss-on ignition and microscopic analysis of marine sediment are used to study Site 74 of the Paynes Creek Salt Works in southern Belize. Site 74 was once an ancient Maya salt work. Due to sea-level rise, sea water and mangrove peat now cover the site. Sediment from the site was exported under permit to the Louisiana State University Laboratory. I prepared and delivered the samples to the Louisiana State University Agricultural Chemistry Laboratory for inductively coupled plasma- atomic emission spectroscopy testing (ICP-AES). ICP-AES measured the amount of 20 elements in the sediment. Maps showing …

Higher Energy Gap Control Of Fluorescence In Conjugated Polymers, Chien-Hung Chiang

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Chemo- and biosensors based on fluorescent conjugated polymer benefit from greater detection sensitivity due to amplification of the electronic perturbations produced by analyte binding. This amplification stems from the exciton-transporting properties of conjugated polymers. A conventional design paradigm relies on the analyte binding events which generate sites of lower energy relative to the polymer energy: either fluorescence quenching sites (turn-off sensors) or bathochromically shifted fluorophores (turn-on sensors). In both type sensors, the excitons migrate to the lower-energy site created by analyte binding.

This dissertation primarily focused the investigation of an alternative paradigm when analyte binding creates higher energy gap sites …

Electrophysiological Signatures Of Spatial Boundaries In The Human Subiculum., Sang Ah Lee, Jonathan F. Miller, Andrew J. Watrous, Michael R. Sperling, Ashwini Sharan, Gregory A. Worrell, Brent M. Berry, Joshua P. Aronson, Kathryn A. Davis, Robert E. Gross, Bradley Lega, Sameer Sheth, Sandhitsu R. Das, Joel M. Stein, Richard Gorniak, Daniel S. Rizzuto, Joshua Jacobs

Department of Radiology Faculty Papers

Environmental boundaries play a crucial role in spatial navigation and memory across a wide range of distantly related species. In rodents, boundary representations have been identified at the single-cell level in the subiculum and entorhinal cortex of the hippocampal formation. Although studies of hippocampal function and spatial behavior suggest that similar representations might exist in humans, boundary-related neural activity has not been identified electrophysiologically in humans until now. To address this gap in the literature, we analyzed intracranial recordings from the hippocampal formation of surgical epilepsy patients (of both sexes) while they performed a virtual spatial navigation task and compared …

Motherhood Makes A Matriarchy, Lily Mann

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Projects

This analysis will discuss the topic of matriarchies, how they created, and how they are sustained. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, and Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story: Coven are used as examples of matriarchies, wherein Hawthorne’s matriarchy is at its start, whereas Murphy’s matriarchy is coming to a potential end. This will be examined through a comparative analysis between the characters in Hawthorne’s early American work with the characters in Murphy’s contemporary work. Ultimately, Hawthorne’s matriarchy is much more insidious and potentially damaging to a patriarchal norm than Murphy’s reclusive patriarchy. Hawthorne’s matriarchy has the option to disrupt a patriarchal …

Strategic Negligence: Why The United States Failed To Provide Military Support To The Syrian Resistance In 2011-2014, Konrad J. Trautman

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The US military’s culture, structure, and process for providing advice to the president and his national security decision-making team are flawed due to the marginalization of unconventional warfare (UW) expertise -- UW is the military’s doctrinal term for support to resistance activities and movements. This marginalization results in inadequate consideration for applying UW as a strategic option for the nation.

Through a qualitative methods case study analysis utilizing macro- and micro-level process-tracing with a conceptual framework based on Niklas Luhmann’s Systems Theory, the author shows that viable and acceptable resistance elements existed in Syria in March 2011 to June 2014 …

Reflections On Reading, John E. Jackson

Naval War College Review

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Hannibal, Timothy J. Demy, Patrick N. Hunt

Naval War College Review

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A Handful Of Bullets: How The Murder Of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Still Menaces The Peace, Jeremy Snellen, Harlan K. Ullman

Naval War College Review

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No Room For Mistakes: British And Allied Submarine Warfare 1939–1940, Charles T. Lewis, Geirr H. Haarr

Naval War College Review

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The Chosen Few: A Company Of Paratroopers And Its Heroic Struggle To Survive In The Mountains Of Afghanistan, Thomas J. Gibbons, Gregg Zoroya

Naval War College Review

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Desperately Seeking A New Dr. Strangelove—The Pentagon’S Brain: An Uncensored History Of Darpa, America’S Top Secret Military Research Agency, Sam J. Tangredi, Annie Jacobsen

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

“Sea Of Peace” Or Sea Of War—Russian Maritime Hybrid Warfare In The Baltic Sea, Martin Murphy, Gary Schaub Jr.

Naval War College Review

Russian destabilization efforts aimed at the Baltic States are most likely to come from the Baltic Sea; be maritime, nonlethal, and nonnaval; and use political, diplomatic, informational, psychological, and economic tools, and perhaps paramilitary forces.

Mission Command In A Future Naval Combat Environment, Robert C. Rubel

Naval War College Review

Naval officers must understand the considerations required to exert effective mission command as operations devolve into forms characterized by lesser degrees of structure and control.

“Rockets’ Red Glare”—Why Does China Oppose Thaad In South Korea, And What Does It Mean For U.S. Policy?, Robert C. Watts Iv

Naval War College Review

China’s purported fears about the introduction of defensive missiles into South Korea are likely insincere or misplaced, leaving concerns about the beneficial effects on U.S. alliances as the probable explanation for its opposition.

A Maritime Oil Blockade Against China—Tactically Tempting But Strategically Flawed, Gabriel Collins

Naval War College Review

The political, economic, and financial aspects of sustaining an oil blockade against China mean that even a militarily successful blockader could find its political, economic, and diplomatic position untenable well before a blockade could exert its full effects.

From The Editors, Carnes Lord

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Spring 2018 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

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The Grand Strategy Of The Byzantine Empire, Mike Markowitz, Edward N. Luttwak

Naval War College Review

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Execute Against Japan: The U.S. Decision To Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, James P. Wisecup, Joel Ira Holwitt

Naval War College Review

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Why Nato Endures, Thomas Fedyszyn, Wallace J. Thies

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Death By Moderation: The U.S. Military’S Quest For Useable Weapons, Theodore L. Gatchel, David A. Koplow

Naval War College Review

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Paul Johnson’S Brief Life Of Churchill, Henry M. Rector, Paul Johnson

Naval War College Review

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Four Lessons That The U.S. Navy Must Learn From The Dreadnought Revolution, Angus K. Ross

Naval War College Review

Early in the twentieth century the Royal Navy, the world’s dominant naval force, stood at the cusp of fundamental technological and strategic shifts—and failed, as an institution, to respond effectively to them. Why? What can the U.S. Navy, in a similar position today, learn from the experience?

The Most Daring Act Of The Age—Principles For Naval Irregular Warfare, Benjamin Armstrong

Naval War College Review

The 1804 burning of the captured frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor was an early example of U.S. Navy irregular warfare, and it suggests principles that will be valuable in the irregular warfare that the Navy is likely face in the years to come.

Taming The Outlaw Sea, James G. Stavridis, Richard E. Lebron

Naval War College Review

Piracy in the Horn of Africa presents the international community with a complex and multidimensional challenge but also with a golden opportunity to come together and work collaboratively to solve it.

A Private Security Solution To Somali Piracy?—The U.S. Call For Private Security Engagement And The Implications For Canada, Christopher Spearin

Naval War College Review

Recently expressed U.S. interest in encouraging commercial shippers to rely on private security companies against pirates is a matter of concern, both in practical terms and in fundamental terms of “who does what” at sea.

The Canadian Navy And Canada’S National Interests In This Maritime Century, Dean Mcfadden

Naval War College Review

Adversaries have learned to integrate the warfare traditions of Clausewitz and Mao Zedong and to organize all means of violence—criminal, irregular, and conventional—to achieve their political ends. There are important implications in this for Canada’s maritime forces, including the fundamental capacity to fight and prevail in combat at sea against a potentially far broader and more comprehensive range of threats than ever before.

Talking About Sea Control, Robert C. Rubel

Naval War College Review

For two decades the U.S. Navy has enjoyed total command of the sea, so much so that it has stopped talking about sea control, even to the extent of forgetting how to. The time has come to rediscover the discipline, yet again.

Programs Vs. Resources—Some Options For The Navy, Ronald O’Rourke

Naval War College Review

If the U.S. Navy’s budget does not increase in real terms, the prospect over the longer run is for a fleet with advanced capabilities for performing missions but too few ships and aircraft to perform them simultaneously in all desired areas. Policy makers addressing this situation could face difficult choices among options that present feasibility challenges or have their own potential downsides.

President’S Forum—Gaming In Newport And What Lies Ahead, James Wisecup

Naval War College Review

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