Algorithms for image/video quality assessment (QA) aim to predict the qualitiesof images in a manner that agrees with subjective quality ratings. Over the lastseveral decades, the major impetus in QA research has focused ...

The research also introduces some novel approaches to estimating, from field production data, the simulation reservoir properties such as oil-water and gas-oil relative permeability relationships, PVT properties, and ...

This thesis explores the potential for empowerment that drag performance has on the lives of drag performers and their audience members. I have attended over one hundred drag performances in Oklahoma City from January 2015 ...

Forgiveness is a process culminating in relationship renegotiation and transformation following the offering and acceptance of amends. The culmination of the forgiveness process is facilitated by the acknowledgement of a ...

This essay discusses two sets of creative teaching methods: live singing and dancing. The performance by an instructor can set a mode for students to achieve intellectual transformation by exploring issues of identity. The ...

This study characterizes Perilla frutescens toxicosis in the bovine. Clinical signs were closely monitored in four calves given various amounts of mint and the postmortem lesions noted. Different parts of the plant (both ...

We study the existence, uniqueness and stability of solutions to the initial-value problem for the periodic dispersion-managed nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (DMNLS) equation, an equation that models the propagation of periodic, ...

Overall, the work in this dissertation contributes to our understanding of anaerobic biodegradation pathways, the role of syntrophic interactions in substrates degradation, and demonstrates a novel benzoate fermentation ...

Food waste is a prominent food policy issue that is caused by many factors, with food expiration date labeling on perishable food items as a contributory factor. Perishable food items may have more than one expiration date ...