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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Houma"”.
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Experiencing Higher Education in Louisiana through a Native American Lens
… Choctaw-Apache, Coushatta and the United Houma Nation. Responses have been analyzed using the cultural model presented by Guiffrida (2006) and support the need for a cultural perspective, with the addition of the tribe as an influence. Students were satisfied overall with their …
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Environmental equity in southeast Louisiana: oil, people, policy, and the geography of industrial hazards
… residents within the study area. Conversely, Houma Indians residing on the wetland fringe stand at risk from the petroleum industry, both directly, through potential residential exposure, and indirectly, through potentially impacted hunting and fishing grounds. These results highlight the …
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Genetic linkage map of LCP 85-384, genetic diversity of a S. spontaneum collection and the contribution of S. spontaneum to Louisiana commerical germplasm
… genotypes in the local collection (USDA, Houma, LA) was assessed using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers. Fifty-one genotypes grouped largely according to their geographical origins namely Central and East zones. The contribution of alleles from the S. spontaneum …
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Improving C4 photosynthetic chilling tolerance in bioenergy crops: the search for elite breeding materials
… by the USDA-ARS basic breeding program in Houma, LA. The objective of this study is an early-generation screening of Saccharum spp. and inter-generic hybrids for Saccharum for superior photosynthetic chilling tolerance. The majority of energycane genotypes investigated here showed higher or …
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Thirty Years of Change: How Subdivisions on Stilts have Altered A Southeast Louisiana Parish's Coast, Landscape and People
In thirty years, the number of second homes for recreation fishers in coastal Terrebonne Parish has grown from 244 in the late 1970s to an estimated 2,500 in 2005. This thesis considers the ramifications of the tourism boom along the parish's historically isolated and undeveloped coastline. Four …