Nicholls State University

About: Nicholls State University is a education organization based out in Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & The Internet. The organization has 456 authors who have published 795 publications receiving 20031 citations.

Understanding the success and failure of oyster populations: climatic cycles and perkinsus marinus

Abstract: Perkinsus (= Dermocystidium) marinus is a major cause of mortality in eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica. Because initiation of infection and progression of disease are favored by high temperature and high salinity, we hypothesized that climatic cycles influence cycles of disease. Analyses of a 10-y time series of disease prevalence and intensity, chlorophyll a, suspended sediments, water temperature and salinity from a Louisiana site, using a wavelet technique, show a teleconnection between the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and oyster disease in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Salinity increases precede increased disease prevalence by several months. The changes in salinity that trigger changes in disease prevalence and intensity are strongly driven by ENSO events. Interannual variation is important in the initiation and intensification of disease, and salinity is the primary driving factor. The patterns in the environmental and disease time series suggest that epizootics can be initiated...

Corrupt political jurisdictions and voter participation

Abstract: An FBI investigation of county purchasing activities in the mid 1980s resulted in the conviction of 55 of Mississippi's 410 county supervisors. Analyzing data from the state's 1987 county supervisor elections and hypothesizing that candidates' demands for votes increase as the gains from holding public office increase, we predict larger voter turnouts in the 26 of the state's 82 counties where supervisor corruption was exposed. Holding constant average voter turnout in the preceding U.S. presidential election and controlling for the competitiveness of supervisor races, we find that more Mississippians indeed voted in corrupt than in non-corrupt counties.

The Importance of Relevant Practical Experience among Accounting Faculty: An Empirical Analysis of Students' Perceptions

Abstract: AACSB International maintains a requirement that accounting faculty, as a whole, should demonstrate relevant professional experience for academic units seeking separate accounting accreditation. This study examines student perceptions of the importance of relevant practical experience by using a two‐phase method incorporating both a between‐subjects design of an experiment and a survey in which participants ranked the importance of various faculty attributes. The results of the Phase One experiment indicate that professors possessing relevant practical experience were perceived by students to be of significantly higher quality than professors lacking relevant practical experience. Survey results in Phase Two, limited due to the method used, provide some degree of validation of the results found in Phase One.