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2000-2001 Operating Budget
Get PDFThe Southern University and A & M College Operating Budget for the Fiscal Year 2000-2001
The man for all seasons: the once paternal godfather of Louisiana\u27s African American social and political constinuency, J. K. Haynes
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to examine the life of this great African American leader and his impact on Louisiana\u27s society. This work will cite many of J.K. Haynes\u27 social contributions and how pertinent they were to the evolution of education, as well as to the welfare of the citizens of Louisiana. The necessity for such a work like this, rest on the fact that too little emphasis has been placed on the role of African Americans in the evolution of Louisiana\u27s Educational System. The author\u27s goal is therefore to present autobiography of J.K. Haynes\u27 career. A great deal of information for this study on this African American was obtained by interviewing individuals who worked with Haynes during his career. They included African American teachers, lawyers, politicians, administrators and other professionals throughout Louisiana. The author also used books, which explains how this dynamic civil rights leader championed the struggle for the equalization of teachers\u27 salaries within the state of Louisiana, helped to legally protect African American educators, and how he uniquely contributed to the enhancement of education throughout the state of Louisiana. The legacy of this great advocate of quality education for African Americans continue to serve as an inspiration for future generations to take the initiative in help bring societal change
2000-2001 Operating Budget
Get PDFThe Southern University at Shreveport, Operating Budget for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2001
Self-objectification: cognitive effects and ethnic differences
Get PDFObjectification Theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997) posits that because American culture objectifies women\u27s bodies (e.g., through visual mass media), girls and women are socialized to self-objectify. Self-Objectification is manifest by internalization of the observer\u27s perspective. According to objectification theory, self-objectification has a variety of emotional and cognitive consequences, including increased shame and anxiety and diminished cognitive resources which can lead to diminished cognitive performance. A prior experiment demonstrated that states of self-objectification diminished performance on a stroop color-naming task supporting the prediction about cognitive performance. The current research was conducted to test whether mental suppression of self-objectifying thoughts accounted for this diminished performance. Participants in the current study were instructed to either suppress thoughts and feelings related to these questionnaires or not. All participants then completed the Stroop color-naming task. A survey study was also conducted to compare self-objectification and ethnic identity differences between African American and Caucasian American women. Results were expected to yield that African American woman, who are thought to relate more closely to ethnic identity, are less likely to exhibit characteristics associated with self-objectification. One possible reason for such a difference could be that the coping strategy women of color develop to deal with racism may also buffer against the negative psychological repercussions of sexual objectification
Participation in a support group and quality of life for the caregiver of the patient with Alzheimer\u27s disease
Get PDFAlzheimer\u27s disease presently affects four million people in this country. This disease not only affects the patient, but it also has a profound effect on the family. The caregiver could potentially spend two decades caring for the Alzheimer disease patient. Provision of this care can cause feelings of loneliness and despair for the caregiver. The caregiver should be encouraged to seek support from family and community programs to ease the burden of caregiving and to improve quality of life. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of support group participation on the quality of life for caregivers of Alzheimer disease patients. A random convenience sample which consisted of thirty-three (N=33) subjects included caregivers that participate in support groups and those that do not participate in support groups. Subjects were recruited from the local Alzheimer\u27s Association and a local nursing home facility. The instrument utilized for data collection was the Quality-of-Life Seniors Version (Brief) questionnaire (QOLSVB). This questionnaire consists of twenty-seven questions that measure the individual\u27s physical, psychological, and spiritual functioning, their connection with their environments, and opportunities for maintaining and enhancing skills, Demographic data was collected which included age, race, sex, gender, religion, education, employment status, income, residence of the Alzheimer disease patient, and the percentage of caregiving duties provided. The conceptual model used for this study was Imogene King\u27s conceptual framework for nursing. King view\u27s the family as a social system and believes that nurses need to know about the impact of social systems on individual and group behavior. The nurse, utilizing the nursing process, works with individuals and groups within the social system to address the health needs of clients and the wants of the system. Descriptive statistics, f-test and t-test were used to analyze the findings. The F test statistics revealed differences among variances of the support group and non-support group data. These findings suggest that there are several other factors that may affect quality of life. The t-test statistics was calculated to determine the significance of support groups on quality of life. Comparing the calculated t with the theoretical t at significance level a =.05, a =. 02 and a =. O. 0 I, there was no significant difference in the quality of life among caregivers who participate in a support group and those who do not
Sickle cell disease: animal models and gene therapy
Get PDFSickle cell disease is a worldwide health problem in countries ranging from its origin, Africa, to the United States of America. The understanding of sickle cell disease dates to Zimbabwe in the 1940\u27s. Sickle cell trait is the term used to describe healthy unaffected carriers (heterozygous) of the genetic condition known as Sickle Cell Disease. It is estimated that there are about 100,000 genes in the human body and each of them codes for a different trait. About 5,000 of these genes are known to carry mutations serious enough to cause genetic diseases. This research deal with sickle cell mice models. These mice have many different traits and genes that are under research in order to manipulate their genes to create a model useful for testing treatments for sickle cell disease. The primary goal of this lab research is to perform bone marrow transplants to determine whether or not marrow cells from the models under development are histocompatible with standard recipients. The ultimate goal of this lab research as well as other researchers is ti be able to complete gene therapy successfully in mouse models using approaches directly applicable with humans
The attitudes of minority children in the East Baton Rouge Parish school system to standardized test scores and the relationship of other factors of test bias
Get PDFConcern over the years has been highly concentrated on minority learning and underachievement. A major area of focus lies in low test scored for minorities, especially African Americans. Standardized testing, the way in which students are compared nation-wide and schools are judged on their achievement of teaching fundamental principles, has been researched as having bias. Economic disadvantages tend to correlate with low levels of learning, inadequate school funding, and limited educational opportunities. Every group has its own beliefs, ways of learning, and environmental influences, and these all have to go into consideration when educating the nation’s children. Attitudes towards testing as well as learning have been found to have a major effect on outcomes. Factors of testing anxiety, readiness, and relevancy influence test results. Students who have been fully prepared academically and made aware of the importance of testing have been viewed as successful. On the other hand, students who are disadvantaged socially and educationally and are not mindful of the importance of testing tend to do poorly. The Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, or LEAP, is the state’ s standard way of assessing student competence and getting them prepared to compete nationally. As a student teacher in the Louisiana school system, I definitely see first-hand the correlation of attitudes and how they affect class achievement. The focus of the research was to see the attitudes of the fourth graders who participated in LEAP testing relative to recent data on scoring. I chose to survey two classes of fourth graders at an East Baton Rouge Parish school, Mayfair Elementary, to determine their level of anxiety, content knowledge, and importance of testing were. The results of the survey showed the importance of attitudes for minority children to be successful in testing and hopefully to overcome other factors related to testing proficiency
Black Entertainment Television and Music Television : a comparative study of minority portrayal in television commercials and their societal implications
Get PDFThis paper is a qualitative and quantitative study of minority representation in commercial advertisement on Black Entertainment Television and Music Television. A content analysis of 200 commercials airing June 21, 1999, through July 2, 1999, between 4:00 5:00p.m. revealed that as the target audience changes, so does commercial type, the frequency of minority appearance and the role of the minority commercial. For the purpose of content analysis, individuals in each commercial were coded by ethnicity. Each commercial was classified by type and placed in one of ten categories. Differences in factors such as commercial type and commercial frequency were used as indicators of change in target audience. This analysis discusses as well as the differences observed in the portrayal on minorities in the commercial sample
Phage therapy : an alternative to antibiotics
Get PDFBacteria resistant to most or all available antibiotics are causing increasingly serious problems and raising widespread fears of returning to a pre-antibiotic era of untreatable infections and epidemics. Despite intensive work by drug companies, no new classes of antibiotics have been found in the last 30 years . There are hopes that the newfound ability to sequence entire microbial genomes and to determine the molecular bases of pathogenicity will open new avenues for treating infectious disease, but other approaches are also being sought with increasing fervor. One result is a renewed interest in the possibilities of bacteriophage (phage) therapy - the harnessing of a specific kind of viruses that attack only bacteria to kill pathogenic microorganisms. Bacteriophages are bacterial viruses. They are viruses that infect specific bacteria and destroy them. A bacteriophage virus infects a host bacterial cell by attaching itself to the surface of a bacterial cell and then injecting its viral nucleic acid into the cell. Hundreds of new bacteriophage virus particles are then formed within the bacterial cell as the virus replicates itself. The bacterial cell is then destroyed, releasing the new bacteriophage viruses to infect other bacterial cells. The process is repeated within the bacterial cell population about every 20 minutes until the bacteria are eliminated. This paper is written primarily to put phage therapy in a historical and ecological context; to explore the roles of bacteriophages in maintaining microbial ecology; and in helping to deal with the growing crisis in antibiotic resistant microbes
The future of regional integration in Latin America
Get PDFCommonalties in language, religion, history, politics and economics have retained positive ties between the nations of Latin America. However, in lieu of the transnational problems that the region is facing in the areas of the environment, drugs and hunger, mere cultural and historical commonalties will not be enough to establish the regional cooperation desperately needed in Latin America to procure its economic future . Many organizations have thus been created to further cooperation and integration in the region. These initiatives, however, lack certain characteristics needed for successful regional integration. Moreover, a specific initiative, the FT AA spear headed by the United States, retains flaws in its conception and its future remains tainted by regional security conflicts. Thus, this thesis points out the relevance of the current regional conflicts affecting the future of the FT AA and the its implications for US foreign policy while specifying changes needed to foster successful regional integration in Latin America