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Showing 1 to 20 of 653 for “"LOUISIANA"”.
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The Acadians of Southwest Louisiana
… them into their midst. Some of them came to Louisiana about 175$, where they were offered homes, friends, sympathy and opportunity. They in turn enriched the economic, educational, political, religious, and social life of the State. At the same time they have been able not only to preserve …
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The importance of the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service as perceived by local governing bodies in Louisiana
… study was to determine the importance of the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service (CES) as perceived by members of local governing bodies in Louisiana. The fundamental objective of the CES is the development of people by means of educational programs. Local governing body members (defined …
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Artificial Reef Performance in Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana
… a large oligohaline estuary, Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana to improve recreational fisheries. The reefs are the first in Louisiana to be built of reef balls, concrete domes deployed primarily in marine environments. Although they attract fish and invertebrates in high salinities, reef balls have …
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Teacher Moonlighting: A Perceptional Study From Louisiana
… moonlighting had on teachers in Northwest Louisiana. Through a series of online interviews, teachers shared their narrative regarding the effects moonlighting had on their personal and professional lives. The study took a constructivist phenomenological approach using primary data along …
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A Stirling Education: Education in Antebellum Louisiana
… prominent West Feliciana families found in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections (LLMVC) at the LSU libraries in an effort to understand how Louisianans’ value and support education. The antebellum period was chosen for study because it was arguably the last time period in which …
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MINERALOGICAL RESTRICTIONS ON POROSITY IN THE TAYLOR SAND OF THE COTTON VALLEY GROUP, NORTHERN LOUISIANA SALT BASIN, CLAIBORNE PARISH, LOUISIANA
… and exploration across the northwest/northern Louisiana region.</p> <p> In this research, mineralogical restrictions on the porosity in the Lower Taylor Sand of the Cotton Valley Group were studied from core (10,035’ft/3,059m -10,150’ft/3,094m) from Blackburn Field, northwest Claiborne Parish. …
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National Board Certification and School Leadership in Louisiana
… model contribute to school leadership in Louisiana? The state of Louisiana currently has approximately 1,000 teachers with National Board Certification (NBPTS, 2006f). These NBC teachers and approximately 3,000 non-NBC teachers received the online School Leadership Survey, which included …
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Lost in transition: welfare to work in Louisiana
… study examines the impact of welfare reform in Louisiana by analyzing the determinants of group classification in the welfare-to-work transition. I analyze data from the Louisiana Welfare Panel Survey to determine the factors that place recipients into one of four groups based on welfare and …
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Spiral Welded Pipe Piles For Structures In Southeastern Louisiana
… 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 …
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Land Loss: Attachment, Place and Identity in Coastal Louisiana
… the identity loss that residents of coastal Louisiana experience due to coastal land loss. I rely on 126 in-depth interviews of residents from communities in six coastal parishes (counties). Respondents convey the meanings they give to land loss through constructing a narrative of place. A …
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Investigation of a kalilo plasmid in Louisiana Neurospora tetrasperma
… of a kalilo-like plasmid, named kalilo', within Louisiana-isolated strains of Neurospora tetrasperma. Comparison of the physical characteristics of the kalilo andkalilo' plasmids revealed that the plasmids have identical restriction maps. In addition, digestion of the kalilo' plasmid with 5' and …
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Dynamics of the sweetpotato potyvirus aphid pathosystem in Louisiana
… titers relate to the spread of potyviruses in Louisiana sweetpotato fields; (iii) to determine the effects of virus infection on the population dynamics of aphids on sweetpotato and morning glories; and (iv) to determine the effects of virus infection on stylet penetration behaviors of aphids. …
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Spatial econometric analysis of Louisiana rural real estate values
… analysis of the dynamics of rural land values in Louisiana. Specifically, spatial econometric procedures and hedonic price analysis were used to evaluate the impact of land characteristics on land prices across rural land markets in Louisiana. Initially, hedonic models were estimated by ordinary …
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A Botanical Study of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T22:00:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5904557.pdf: 5897683 bytes, checksum: fce0a736f6dc64f66e4690c2b2d83edd (MD5) Previous issue date: 1959
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Rethinking decreolization: Language contact and change in Louisiana Creole
… change and creoles. These data are drawn from Louisiana Creole, a critically endangered and under-researched French-lexifier creole. Louisiana Creole is particularly well-suited to a study of decreolization: over the course of its life, it has been in contact with its lexifier (French) and a …
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Assessing an offshore carbon storage opportunity at Chandeleur Sound, Louisiana
… an offshore state water site – Chandeleur Sound, Louisiana. Form literature review, the storage window is narrowed to Middle and Upper Miocene. 3-D seismic data was used for fault and horizon picking, stratal slicing and attribute mapping. Three attributes/methods were used in the stratal slices: …
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Quantifying Rates of Autocompaction in the Pearl River Marsh, Louisiana
… of a transect in the Pearl River Marsh (PRM), Louisiana, in order to determine the most significant sedimentary property controlling this process. Compaction-free wedge cores were sub-sampled at one centimeter intervals to collect the following data: age control, using 137Cs and 210Pb, and …
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