Twitter is a powerful real-time micro-blogging service and it is a platform where users provide and obtain information, called tweets, at a rapid pace. Because of the volume, velocity, and unstructured nature of tweets, ...

The Early Paleozoic Wolfcamp formation is one of the main unconventional reservoirs in the Delaware Basin, and highly targeted by U.S. companies. Innovative completion techniques and representative core analysis have ...

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The question of how the Casimir effect relates to a system's geometry is of fundamental interest. In this thesis, we present new results for interior Casimir self-energies of various integrable geometries and show interesting ...

Scope and Method of Study: Drawing upon the literary criticism of various authors---from Emily Dickinson to Robert Bly to Stephen Dobyns---while acknowledging the work of poets who have directly influenced my own ...

The purpose of this document is to provide a systematic register of the horns and other alto range brass instruments in the Arne B. Larson instrument collection. Of the 299 instruments detailed in this document, 73 are of ...