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- Corner Culture: Corner Stores in the Black Pearl Neighborhood of New Orleans
- Historic Preservation, Food Distribution, Land-Use Planning and Zoning, Neighborhood Planning, Master Plan
- The corner store represents a significant part of New Orleans’ history and neighborhoods. From essential grocery providers to bars and restaurants full of local character, these buildings have held a number of roles in the community. These roles...
- 2010-08-05
- Software Renovation: An In-house Perspective with Case Studies
- Methodologies, Code Design, Programming Paradigms, Maintenance
- Programs are not only a tool for the simplification or automation of everyday tasks; they also represent a significant time and money investment. A program’s life may span years, or even decades, which creates certain risks for the stakeholders...
- 2010-12-17
- Lightless Mornings: A Fine Legacy
- Convict leasing, W.D. McCurdy, Genealogy, Prison system, Alabama history, Biography, Reconstruction, Coal mining, Property inheritance
- Lightless Mornings: A Fine Legacy represents a personal interrogation and historical account of my great-great-great grandfather, W.D. McCurdy’s use of forced labor in his coalmines and cotton plantations in the Black Belt region of Alabama...
- 2011-05-20
- Actionable Visualization of Higher Dimensional Dynamical Processes
- Intelligible Visualization Data Visualization B-matrix DLL View Application View Function View
- Analyzing modern day’s information systems that produce humongous multi-dimensional data in form of logs, traces or events that unfold over time can be tedious without adequate visualization, thereby, advocating the need for an intelligible...
- 2011-05-20
- “Against My Destiny”: Reading an Italian Immigrant‟s Memoir in the Early 20th-century South
- Life narrative, segregation, race, class, gender, New South, doubleness, identity, Italian, immigrant, isolation, Catholicism, sharecropping
- Giuseppe Emilio Rocconi's life narrative, The Story of My Life (1958), represents the hardships of immigration and assimilation through meditations on home, family, and religion. I read his narrative in contrast with white elite narratives that...
- 2011-05-20
- The Third Side of the Coin
- Poetry Collection
- The Third Side of the Coin is a manuscript of poetry exploring ironic distances, both physical and metaphysical, both slight and significant. It opens with a quote from Agha Shahid Ali who asked, “What then is separation’s geography?” The...
- 2002-12-20;
- The Golden Ring: A Narrative Film Production
- Narrative short film; Digital video; DVX 100A
- This thesis documents the production of THE GOLDEN RING, a short narrative film shot on digital video. All the phases of the production, from the writing process through the post-production, are addressed in the thesis. THE GOLDEN RING is a film...
- 2005-08-10;
- Reducing the Hot Spot Effect in Wireless Sensor Networks with the Use of Mobile Data Sink
- Normalizing energy consumption; Extension network lifetime
- The Hot Spot effect is an issue that reduces the network lifetime considerably. The network on the field forms a tree structure in which the sink represents the root and the furthest nodes in the perimeter represent the leaves. Each node collects...
- 2006-05-22;
- A Geological Interpretation of 3D Seismic Data of a Salt Structure and Subsalt Horizons in the Mississippi Canyon Subdivision of the Gulf of Mexico
- Deep water; Subsalt; Mississippi canyon; Seismic interpretation; Gulf of Mexico
- The Gulf of Mexico (GOM) represents a challenge for exploration and production. Most of the sediments coming from North America has bypassed the shelf margin into Deep Water. In an Attempt to attack this challenge this thesis pretends to break the...
- 2006-05-22;
- Beneath the Surface
- Creative Nonfiction, New Orleans, Guatemala, Travel, Sibling Loss, Aging, Cancer, bicycles, D.I.Y., Hurricane Katrina, evacuation, online teaching, Freshman English
- Beneath the Surface is a collection of seven individual literary nonfiction essays. Five of the essays are personal essays, and three come from the author’s contribution to UNO’s Katrina Narrative Project. The collection represents the...
- 2007-05-18;
- Facultative Bioreactor Landfill: An Environmental and Geotechnical Study
- geoenvironmental; MSW compressibility; sanitary landfills; waste landfills ; landfills; bioreactor
- A relatively new concept of Municipal Solid Waste treatment is known as bioreactor landfill technology. Bioreactor landfills are sanitary landfills that use microbiological processes purposefully to transform and stabilize the biodegradable organic...
- 2003-08-07;
- Lekhost a Tize: An Experiment in Film Production Methodology
- Filmmaking; Czech; Prague; Michal Bragant; Vaclav Cilek
- Proliferation and convergence of new technologies as well as the diverse media it has given rise to have had a dramatic impact on the theory and practice of contemporary filmmaking. This trend also holds considerable implication for the range of...
- 2003-12-19;
- “To Clear a Rock-Bottom, Low-Density Slum”: Using Public Housing Means to Meet Urban Renewal Ends in New Orleans, 1954-1959
- urban renewal, public housing, New Orleans, residential segregation, housing policy
- Unlike major cities across the country, New Orleans did not have the power to expropriate property to engage in urban renewal projects after 1954. Yet city officials desperately sought to meet the ends of urban renewal, specifically through public...
- 2008-05-16;
- New Orleans‘ Plasterers‘ Union Local 93: Afro-Creole Identity, Family and Organized Labor, 1898-1954
- The Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons International Union Local 93 was founded as a racially integrated union in New Orleans at the turn of the twentieth century. The Union was established by Irish Americans and New Orleans Afro-Creoles and...
- 2009-08-06;
- Sedimentology of a Lower Middle Pleistocene Reservoir in Garden Banks Area, Northern Gulf of Mexico: Integration of 3D Seismic, Cores, and Well Logs
- Pimento Field, Garden Banks, Horizons, Shelf, Slope, 3D Seismic, Mini-Basin
- Garden Banks field 236, known as Pimento, is part of a lower middle Pleistocene submarine-fan deposit in the north central Gulf of Mexico. Pimento field represents a classic example of a prograding fan across the continental shelf continuing across...
- 2010-05-14