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Enhanced Assessments of Tornado Locations and Damage Using Geospatial Technologies
(2024-05-10)
Tornado climatologies represent an important tool for understanding the genesis, behavior, and dissipation of tornados and tornadic storms. The current tornado record is imperfect, but nevertheless useful. I undertook a ...
Exploration of Factors Influencing the Teacher Self-Efficacy in Educators of Justice-Involved Juveniles in Special Settings: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed-Methods Study
(2024-05)
Juveniles involved with the justice system are a population of youth with extensive needs who are historically underserved. Legal mandates have attempted to ensure these students are receiving a quality education, but ...
Only the Young: The Rhetoric of Youth-Led Social Movements In the 21st Century
(2024-05-10)
In this dissertation, I examine several examples of contemporary youth-led protest in conjunction with some of the specific challenges of organizing in the present day. In each chapter, I pair one circumstance that makes ...
Coevolution of a male novel genital trait and female reproductive response in Drosophila melanogaster sister species
(2024-08-01)
Novel morphological structures have always fascinated scientists. Developmental processes give rise to structures and morphologies that are often functionally necessary for an organism’s survival and reproduction. But how ...
A Lithic Analysis of School Land I (34DL64) A Northern Caddo Village in the Foothills of the Ozarks
(2024-05-10)
School Land I (34DL64) is a Harlan Phase (A.D. 1050-1250) Caddo village site set in the Arkansas River basin at the confluence of the Grand and Elk Rivers in Delaware County, Oklahoma. This site was originally excavated ...
AUTHORIAL CUSTODY AND STORY STEWARDSHIP: CENTERING RELATIONALITY AS AN INDIGENOUS APPROACH TO TEXTS
(2024-05-10)
This dissertation looks to position authorial custody and story stewardship as useful tools for author, audience, and critic. As a critical creative methodology, it can be used to identify custodial markers indicating the ...
Examining Preservation of Pathological Lesions in Cremated Human Skeletal Remains from the Archaic Period Site of Phaleron, Greece
(2024-05-10)
This thesis explores preservation of pathological lesions in primary cremations from the Archaic Period (ca. 750-480 BCE), archaeological site of Phaleron, Greece. The main research questions include: 1) How can ...
*1 NEW NOTIFICATION*: SOCIAL MEDIA MISCONCEPTIONS AROUND TRIBAL ABORTION PROVISIONS AND INDIGENOUS METHODS OF REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE AS PRAXIS
(2024-05-10)
My thesis discusses the cultural and social misconceptions of possible tribal abortion provision by social media users in a post Roe setting. Through the analysis of social media posts and further the ideologies expressed ...
CHARACTERIZATION OF TWO BACTERIAL ISOLATES, ACHROMOBACTER MUCICOLENS (A2) AND BACILLUS PARAMYCOIDES (A17), AND ANALYSIS OF PLASTIC BIODEGRADATION CAPABILITY
(2024-05-10)
In this work, two isolates, Achromobacter mucicolens (A2) and Bacillus paramycoides (A17), isolated from naturally weathered plastic enrichment cultures, were studied genetically, morphologically, biochemically and for ...
MODULATING LATTICE OXYGEN ACTIVITY OF CA2FE2-XMXO5 BROWNMILLERITE FOR PRODUCTION OF HIGH PURITY HYDROGEN FROM BIOMASS RESOURCES
(2024-05-11)
Chemical looping (CL) technology offers a promising avenue for producing high-purity hydrogen with inherent CO2 separation. A critical challenge lies in identifying oxygen carriers with high performance and sustained ...