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The Siltcatcher: A Sediment-Capture System For Wetland Creation And Coastal Protection In Western Lake Pontchartrain, Andrew M. Wright

LSU Master's Theses

The West Lake Pontchartrain region faces a number of long-term environmental challenges due to anthropogenic climate disturbance and landscape modification, including sea level rise, increased storm surge risk, shoreline erosion, and wetland degradation. In response, this thesis applies recent research in the fields of landscape architecture and civil engineering to propose a dynamic, natural-systems solution for wetland creation and shoreline protection. The project envisions a series of breakwater-like structures in western Lake Pontchartrain positioned to slow water released from the nearby Bonnet Carré Spillway, causing suspended sediment to settle and create self-building and self-sustaining wetlands capable of keeping pace with …

Thiết Kế Cho Gia Tài Nông Nghiệp: Cho Khu Tôi Ở Nu Ô Linh Đông - Designing For A Living Agricultural Heritage: For My Vietnamese Neighborhood In New Orleans East, Nguyệt Nguyễn

LSU Master's Theses

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Versgggailles in New Orleans East is home to one of the densest populations of Vietnamese outside of Việt Nam. Following the Việt Nam War in 1975, thousands of refugees fled the country and several hundred were resettled in this neighborhood. Over time, community members rooted in a sense of home through tangible and intangible means in the landscape. Elders grow vegetables, herbs and fruit from Việt Nam in yards and vacant lots. Neighbors and and amenities are within walkable distance. The Catholic church is a focal community hub. Language and tradition are practiced at the family and the community …

Give Us Back Our River's Edge: An Analysis Of Man Made Flood Controls Along The Mississippi River, Taylor Jacobsen

LSU Master's Theses

Settlement and engagement along a river’s edge can be seen throughout human history. The direct proximity to a water’s edge has both physical and mental benefits, as well as economic value. However, throughout the last century, cities and their citizens along the Mississippi River have become disconnected from their water’s edge; due to man-made interventions for increased flood control and advancements in the maritime industry. These interventions appeared to be prudent at the time and contributed to many cities' economies to growth, poor planning and placement of these interventions created barriers between citizens and their water’s edge. This thesis analyzes …

Climate Change Adaptation In Highland Ecuador: Intersections Of Gender, Geography, And Knowledge In Farming Communities, Dinka Natali Caceres Arteaga

Latin American Studies ETDs

This dissertation uses a feminist political ecology perspective to explore the socioeconomic impacts of climate change in Ecuador, especially but not limited to the agriculture sector. It is based on the use of mixed methods that allowed the participation and validation of the local population, surpassing their role as beneficiaries to co-authors of this research.

The significance of this study relies on the position the local population holds in the fields of human geography, under a community local-planning perspective, as they attempted to collaborate in the process of adaptation to climate change by presenting analysis and calculation of an index …

Dénonciation D’Un Monde Dégradé Et Rite Du Bouc Émissaire Dans L’Archipel Du Chien De Philippe Claudel, Sophie N. Salloum

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior

The story of L’Archipel du chien treats the problem of the migrants’ attempt to reach Europe. Three young black’s corpses are found on the shore of a little island where people live a peaceful live. The Mayor and the Doctor and those who saw the corpses decide to dispose of the corpses and keep silent about their presence. The Teacher refuses to be part of this scheme. He becomes the scapegoat for the community’s members who see him as a threat for their happiness. In this apologue, the author denounces the indifference of the Europeans authorities in de face of …

جدليّة الوطن والانتماء وأثرها في المجتمع بين سعيد عقل وأحمد مطر, Samir Itani

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior

The term Motherland wasn’t used by the ancient Arab writers and poets, and even if it was mentioned it would mean the house or the residence, as for the concept of the motherland, as identified nowadays, it didn’t exist in the era before Islam or the Middle ages, but it started emerging during the 19th century, when the national sense developed at the Arabs, and they were introduced to this concept by the western culture which invaded all the east.Among the models which the researcher poet “Said Akel” may study, a Lebanese whose thoughts match with those who attempt to …

Nouvelles Technologies Et Connaissances Abondantes : Enjeux Socio-Didactiques, Mohammed Al Khatib

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior

The use of new technologies in all areas of life becomes essential especially as a mean of communication. Social networks are important in the communication of individuals and establishments. Many departments, private and public establishments have an account on Facebook or Twitter which they use as an official mean of communication. As new technologies provide us with open and accessible means of communication that make our lives easier, some people use them in ways that can harm our society. Schools and families must play a role in teaching children to sort through digital information and check the credibility of the …

المسؤولية الاجتماعية بين المفهومين التقليدي والحديث, Mohamed A. Kozy

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior

There is a wrong belief that the social responsibility is a modern concept that started in the twentieth century and the fact is that this concept started at the dawn of religions. Prophets preached for good moral, ethics value and deed. Today there is a dedicated date for the social responsibility, which is the 25th of September. Since we currently live in a rapidly changing world, the concept of social responsibility was not an exception and the change applied to it manifested in companies and corporates that started applying the new concept to reflect a beautiful image on its interaction …

Mental Health Among University Students, Mayssah El-Nayal, Helga Alaeddine

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior

The study entitled “Mental Health in a Sample of University Students in Lebanon” aims at examining the differences in an important variable, namely mental health, between male and female university students. Mental health is a general trend that aims at preserving an individual’s mental health, their mental functions, as well as to protect them from mental disorders and reduce the rate of occurrence, to attain a healthy personality. To achieve the objectives of the study, the Arabic Scale of Mental Health, developed by Abdel-Khalek (2016) was administered to a sample that consisted of 249 students at Beirut Arab University, from …

ضمير الفصل: المصطلح والوظيفة نظرة حديثة في ضوء علم الأصوات, Khalil Ajineh

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior

The study of grammatical structure in the light of the methods provided by phonology is a requirement worth consideration and scientific accompaniment of linguistic studies. Among these structures covered in this research are the structures of the nominal sentence that employs the pronoun referred to by grammarians as the chapter pronoun. The research is an attempt to obtain a new understanding of the function of this pronoun, distinct from the interpretations given by old-timers, in light of what is known in phonology as intonation or music of speech, which is considered a basic pillar and an important verbal context in …

أطر الكتابة الساخرة في المواقع الإعلامية العربية المتخصصة, Iman Aleywan

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior

Amid the great decline in the ceiling of freedom in the Arab countries where the media confronts a constantly deterioration situation, as stated in the 2018 report by “Reporters Without Borders”, satirical journalism seems to be a refuge for the writers to criticize their regimes indirectly and a means to avoid arrest and imprisonment. As the humor and irony in the golden age of the newspapers, were a space to express the forbidden and to state an opposition to the authority, the Internet has allowed the emergence of several media sites that provide “inaccurate and false news” on purpose to …

التأريخ ومسؤولية المؤرخ في تصحيح وإعادة كتابة التاريخ المؤامرات والتدخلات الدولية في لبنان 1840 – 1860 نموذجاً, Hassan Hallak

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior

Recording history is an art developed by ancient nations, and continues to be used in modern and contemporary history. The historian shoulders the scientific, social, political, economic and educational responsibility in all times and places, since recording history reflects the developments of life in every city, state and nation. This is why a historian needs to be honest, truthful, well-informed and insightful. At the same time, a historian adopts a scientific methodology through which events, ideas and developments are presented in accordance with research ethics. The aim is to attain higher meanings and goals as well as noble aspirations in …

أثر التكنولوجيا على التغيير البنائي للأسرة المعاصر, Doha Al-Achkar

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior

Nowadays there are many different types of family compared to 50 years ago when the ‘nuclear’ family, considered the ‘normal’ one, was the most dominant type. Affected by the advancement of many aspects, particularly technology, communication and globalization, the main changes have been changes to marriage and partnership as well as changes to children and families. In respect to changes to marriage fewer people, who are getting married later in life, are getting married nowadays with higher divorce rate. However, in regard to partnership, more couples are now living together without marriage –co-habitation with an increased number of same sex …

L’Europe Face Au Désir D’Europel’Europe Face Au Désir D’Europe, Carole Auroy

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior

In Eldorado (2006), Laurent Gaudé confronts a man from Europe with the desire for Europe directed at him, thru the characters of a Sicilian coastguard and the migrants he rescues to hand them over to the authorities in charge of turning them back. The novel, which recounts the intertwined trajectories of the Italian captain, torn apart by his contradictory functions, and a young Sudanese migrant, makes us hear the challenge addressed by Eldorado’s dream to an existence losing its meaning. The reception of the book has enhanced its humanistic scope and the author has clearly pleaded, in his public interventions, …

ملامح دور الشاعر محمود درويش في المجتمع الفلسطيني, Bashir Faraj

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior

The Palestinian Nakba in 1948 had a clear impact on the Arab nation in general and on the Palestinians in particular. This has aroused the feelings of writers and poets who had a significant literary and heritage role that is characterized by the sincerity of passion and the dexterity in depicting the Nakba. The meanings that came in the poetry, and especially that of Mahmoud Darwish, who is of a Palestinian origin, have had a great impact on the Palestinian community. In his poetry, Mahmoud Darwish expresses a clear desire to form an important basis for his militant ideology, which …

الخصائص السيكو مترية للصورة العربية للإصدار الثاني من قائمة الخمسة الكبار, Bader M. Al-Ansari, Talal B. Alali

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior

This study aims to examine the psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the second Edition of The Big Five Inventory (BFI-2) in Kuwait. This study used independent Three samples with the total of (2977) undergraduates (male=1116 & female=1861) from Kuwait University student in order to assess reliability, validity. The BFI-2 alpha cronbach coefficients ranged between 0.75 and 0.82 for males and between 0.74 and 0.81 for females. The explanatory factor analysis of BFI-2 extracts five factors (Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to experience, Consciousness, Agreeableness). The criterion validity has been reveled quite high inter correlation between BFI-2 and NEO-PI-R facets.

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Forensic Linguistics: An Applied Theory, Adel Sakakini

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior

This article demonstrates how forensic linguistics is a necessary means to most of the pathological fields of life. The theme of this article revolves around forensic linguistics and its applicability in academic research. Forensic linguistics is the systematic study of language latitudes in particular contexts for forensic purposes. As a new academic discipline, it holds the role of developing methodical linguistic standards in order to enhance not only English language, but also universal language. It provides language with aspects that help in solving linguistic problems. It also introduces language as a collective medium for better communication. Being a subfield of …

Le Vivre Ensemble Et Les Interactions Sociales : Vers Une Approche Interactionniste, Abdelfettah Idrissi

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior

We live in a society, which is in a perpetual motion, a society focused on economy, individualism, and globalization. In the era of new technologies, the media broadcasts to us all day long events steeped in violence, atrocities of all kinds, competition, egoism, and the list goes on in view of what we suffer daily at an audiovisual level. We wonder if the values of living together, including human, ethical and moral values, are still relevant or should we believe that they are obsolete? Are we individualistic to the point of living each one at home, for oneself, without worrying …

Analytical Simulation Methods Determining The Basic Characteristics Of A Telecommunication Network With Different Communication Channels And A Changing Structure, Kh Nigmatov, U Umarov

Bulletin of TUIT: Management and Communication Technologies

The article deals with the problems of determining the main quality indicators of a telecommunications network with different types of communication channels and the time-varying structure of their functioning to ensure the specified reliability and time of delivery of protected messages to information consumers. The main method of solving this problem is using analytical and simulation methods on personal computers. Comparison of the obtained simulation results with the results of analytical models are also given.

The developed algorithms for simulation of the process of transmitting messages in various transmission modes allow obtaining distribution of time for message delivery in the …

Nine-Mile Prairie Environs: Master Plan, April 2020, Center For Grassland Studies

Center for Grassland Studies: Newsletters

A red and white checkered water tower stands atop the hills on Lincoln’s northwest fringe. The tower sustains water pressure and is a waypoint finder for air traffic approaching the Lincoln airfield. In addition to these services, the tower’s checker pattern can symbolize the surrounding patchwork of native unplowed tallgrass prairie that comprises the Nine-Mile Prairie (NMP) Environs. At the core is NMP, a 230-acre public property full of tallgrass prairie biodiversity and Nebraska history. An area surrounding NMP, referred to as the “Environs” in the context of this strategic planning document, is almost entirely grassland or agricultural cropland. The …

Investigating The Experimental Process For Partial Replacement Of Cement With Sugarcane Bagasse In The Construction Industry, Amany G. Micheal Prof., Rania Moussa, Nadin Dawoud

Centre for Advanced Materials

In the last few decades there has been speedily increasing in the agriculture and industrial wastes. This causes many environmental issues and raises the potential to contaminate the natural resources of living such as water, air and soil. Recently, the amount of organic waste produced daily has been rising, while it is poorly managed. It is either burned or disposed improperly, which effect negatively the environment and public health. On the other hand, during the cement production process many wastes, and pollutants are generated which have major negative impacts on the environment. Cement is considered as a substantial constituent of …

The People’S Planning Initiative Of Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation, Cassondra Y. White

Community Engagement Student Work

This program evaluation looks at the Community Planning and You workshop of the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation in Boston, MA. The literature review explores the effects and responses to racialized housing policies, including the development of the community development field and its use of neighborhood organizing. The evaluation is grounded in the frameworks and theories of Arnstein’s (1969) Ladder of Citizen Participation, Putnam’s (1994) social capital, and Freire’s (2018) use of popular education to develop Critical Consciousness. There are three key evaluation questions: 1) if participants increase their knowledge of the Article 80 process; 2) if participation in community …

Truth Games, Hanneke Van Deursen

Architecture Senior Theses

This thesis analyzes Neoliberalism, and architecture as its active agent, not only in constructing space, but constructing subjectivity within that space. If Neoliberalism exists in two forms, policy and ideology, I contend that architecture serves as a mediator between these forms: shaped by policy and naturalizing ideology. Truth Games – constructed “truths” which embed themselves in common knowledge and practice – allow the city to appear as banal and incidental, maybe even nice. However, the urban environment is a powerful weapon. The Truth Games embedded in architecture legitimate forms of power that operate on and through the constitution of the …

Alternative Americanisms, Ella Michelle Arne

Architecture Senior Theses

This project investigates the circular influence of architecture, meaning and place across the built American landscape of Route 66. It focuses on the route as an uniquely American invention, reflection, and now obsolete piece of cultural infrastructure.

Architecture Of Narrative, Yinem Day

Architecture Senior Theses

A historic building should be adapted to the existing context and its character should be encouraged to evolve and transform. The addition and intervention to existing building is an inventive and creative process which provides great opportunities to transform an obsolete building into a propelling agent through particular ways, although at the same time restricted by numerous limitations. Architecture should become a tool of highlighting the relationship between the old and new and a bridge that connects the past, present, and future, becoming a point in the timeline of a place and culture. Also, visual storytelling displays a history of …

15th Ward North, Baxter Hankin

Architecture Senior Theses

THIS THESIS ARGUES IN FAVOR OF WALKABILITY AT THE SCALE OF THE CITY, NEIGHBORHOOD, BLOCK, STREET, SPACE, BUILDING, AND DETAIL. WALKABILITY IS A CONDITION THAT ALLOWS FOR INTERESTING AND USEFUL WALKS ON A DAILY BASIS. THIS IS CREATED FROM A MIX OF STRATEGIC, PLANNED CIVIC CONDITIONS, AND AN URBAN FABRIC OF UNPLANNED, FINE-GRAINED, BOTTOM-UP DEVELOPMENTS. THE WALKABLE CITY IS NECESSARY IN TERMS OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE, SUSTAINABILITY, AND CONNECTIVITY. THE INTERESTING ASPECT OF THE WALK IS DETERMINED BY PARALLAX AND THE PICTURESQUE. PARALLAX IS THE “DISPLACEMENT OF THE APPARENT POSITION OF A BODY DUE TO A CHANGE OF POSITION OF THE …

Folie A Cinq: Performative Systems Exhibited Through Theatrical Means., Madison Cannella

Architecture Senior Theses

Performative Systems Exhibited through Theatrical Means

Bunker Reclamation, Demosthenes Sfakianakis

Architecture Senior Theses

-an analysis and documentation of the extremes of the communist regime of Albania

-a political exploration into the dictatorship of the proletariat in which the working class holds power in a post-Hoxha environment

-a design implementation in which the bunkers are reclaimed from the charged symbolism of oppression and become agents towards a collective catharsis and healing

Manifested Tectonic 'In Search Of Theatricality', Ching Huen Leung

Architecture Senior Theses

A column at a scale of a chair, a door half-opened in front of that column. Dancing, spectating, running, etc. Can an open-ending narrative be generated through the interaction between these disembodied objects and subjects? Treating building elements as set pieces, improvisations are generated by both signified objects and participants. The show is currently on play in different locations: You can find it in a field of landscape; in a chaotic street of Tokyo, or even at the back alley near your neighborhood…Don’t hesitate to create your own plot when you encounter them! My thesis mainly focuses on the implementation …

Environmental Justice In Little Village: A Case For Reforming Chicago’S Zoning Law, Charles Isaacs

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

Chicago’s Little Village community bears the heavy burden of environmental injustice and racism. The residents are mostly immigrants and people of color who live with low levels of income, limited access to healthcare, and disproportionate levels of dangerous air pollution. Before its retirement, Little Village’s Crawford coal-burning power plant was the lead source of air pollution, contributing to 41 deaths, 550 emergency room visits, and 2,800 asthma attacks per year. After the plant’s retirement, community members wanted a say on the future use of the lot, only to be closed out when a corporation, Hilco Redevelopment Partners, bought the lot …