• SYNTHESIS, ISOLATION, AND REACTIVITY OF KINETICALLY STABILIZED AROMATIC NITROSAMIDES AND NEW LOW DIMENSIONAL ORGANIC INORGANIC HYBRID MATERIALS 

  Houck, Matthew (2019-08-01)

  The conversion of aromatic amines to esters and phenols is a useful transformation typically carried out using diazonium salt intermediates, but the yields can vary wildly. It has been demonstrated that the reaction of ...

• The Federal Emergency Management Agency: A New Era of Weather Disaster Management 

  Erickson, Somer (2019-08-01)

  Weather directly accounts for nearly all Major Disaster Declarations nationwide and plays a critical role in FEMA decision making. However, the decision making process among FEMA, and emergency management in general, is ...

• Toward Tactical Autonomy in Aerial Robotics 

  Karinshak, Joshua (2019-08-01)

  This thesis addresses the issue of the generation of tactical trajectories, as is desirable in the case of robot autonomy in hostile environments. The generation of such trajectory currently lies beyond the purview of ...

• From the Mundane to the Profound: Developing a Political Model of Weather Information Processing and Climate Change Beliefs 

  Wehde, Wesley (2019-08)

  This dissertation examines the relationships between the mundane, our daily habits of weather information collection, and the profound, our beliefs about climate change and relevant policy solutions. Climate change is a ...

• Intellectual Virtues and Reasonable Disagreement 

  Bickel, Jewelle (2019-08)

  The contemporary problem of disagreement has two prominent solutions. The Conciliationists think that after discovering a case of disagreement one should be less certain of one’s original position. Those who favor Conciliatory ...

• Using Machine Learning Applications and HREFv2 to Enhance Hail Prediction for Operations 

  Burke, Amanda (2019-08)

  In this thesis, I demonstrate how hail prediction can be improved through post-processing numerical weather prediction (NWP) data from the new High-Resolution Ensemble Forecast system version 2 (HREFv2) with machine learning ...

• Evaluation of Durability and Corrosion Behavior of Ultra-High Performance Concrete for use in Bridge Connections and Repair 

  Leggs, Maranda (2019-08-01)

  Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) is one of the new, cutting edge concepts in the world of concrete. Boasting significantly higher compressive and tensile strengths, longer service life, and significantly increased ...

• THE EFFECT OF AMBIGUITY IN THE PERFORMANCE OF MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS 

  McManus, Brandi (2019-08)

  Mergers and acquisitions rarely deliver on expectations, yet organizations continue to pursue these strategic decisions. Scholars have researched acquisitions extensively as decisions under risk (Kumar, Dixit, & Francis, ...

• TOWARDS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOLECULAR FORCE AND HYDROCARBON RECOVERY 

  Mehana, Mohamed (2019-08-01)

  The optimization of hydrocarbon recovery is the core of petroleum engineering. Experiments are always the go-to approach to reveal mysterious observations and verify new theories. However, recent advances on our understanding ...

• Exploring the role of Continuity Operations Management in University supported Volunteer Student Organizations 

  Brabazon, William (2019-08)

  THE ORGANIZATIONAL LIFE CYCLE CONTAINS BETWEEN THREE AND SEVEN PHASES. THE FINAL PHASE OF ALL MODELS HAS BEEN THE DEATH OF THE ORGANIZATION. THIS STUDY DETERMINED IF THERE COULD BE AN ALTERNATIVE TO THIS ORGANIZATIONAL ...

• UNDERSTANDING THE ALKYL DONOR SPECIFICITY OF AROMATIC PRENYLTRANSFERASES 

  Scull, Erin (2019-06-21)

  Chemoenzymatic synthesis is a leading technique in the diversification and late stage modification of complex molecules, due to the high regio and stereo specificities of the enzymes. Over the last decade, the broad aromatic ...

• Can agricultural intensification help to conserve biodiversity? A scenario study for the African continent 

  Koch, Jennifer; Schaldach, Rüdiger; Göpel, Jan (2019-06-21)

  Globally, the production of food, feed, bioenergy, and biomaterials has increased considerably during the past decades. This was achieved by the expansion of agricultural land and the intensification of agricultural ...

• THE EFFECTS OF AD-BLOCK WALL LEVEL, AD-BLOCK WALL MESSAGE FRAME, EXPLICIT GOAL EXISTENCE AND AD TYPE ON PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTANCE, UNCONSCIOUS AD PROCESSING AND ONLINE NEWS BRAND EVALUATION 

  Kim, Seunghyun (2019-06-18)

  Myopic loss aversion can take place when news media management and advertisers focus too much on preventing short-term losses. Although ad-bock walls may successfully block the ad-block users’ access, two studies here have ...

• First Documented Pathologies in Tenontosaurus tilletti with Comments on Infection in Non-Avian Dinosaurs 

  Hunt, T.C.; Peterson, J.E.; Frederickson, J.A.; Cohen, J.E.; Berry, J.L. (2019-06-18)

  In 2001, a nearly complete sub-adult Tenontosaurus tilletti was collected from the Antlers Formation (Aptian-Albian) of southeastern Oklahoma. Beyond its exceptional preservation, computed tomography (CT) and physical ...

• Regional biaxial mechanical data of the mitral and tricuspid valve anterior leaflets 

  Laurence, Devin; Ross, Colton; Jett, Samuel; Johns, Cortland; Echols, Allyson; Baumwart, Ryan; Towner, Rheal; Liao, Jun; Bajona, Pietro; Wu, Yi; Lee, Chung-Hao (2019-06)

  The collective data associated with this article presents the biaxial mechanical behavior for six smaller, delimited regions of the mitral valve and tricuspid valve anterior leaflets. Each data set consists of five columns ...

• Removing the invisibility cloak: Using space design to influence patron behavior and increase service desk usage 

  Pierce, Stephaine; Schilling, Amanda (2019-05-21)

  In small branch libraries, patrons seeking assistance from library staff outside of the dedicated single-service desk often results in large staffing inefficiencies. This paper presents a case study in which the authors ...

• Future Impact on the Low-Level Jet and its Effects on Wind Energy Generation in Oklahoma 

  Wimhurst, Joshua (2019-05-11)

  Future increases of wind energy density for the United States’ South-Central Plains region have been projected by several previous research examples. The Central Plains’ low-level jet has been projected to become faster ...

• THE UNIQUE GEOMETRIES AND ILLUMINATIONS OF PROTOPLANETARY DISKS AND THEIR POTENTIAL EXOPLANETS 

  Rich, Evan (2019-05-11)

  The discovery of new protoplanetary disk structures can help reveal the dynamics of the young planetary systems and potentially point to planet formation within the disk. In my dissertation, I present investigations of ...

• Noise and Fragile Symphonies: Animality and the South African Sonic Genre in The Whale Caller, Disgrace, and Nineveh 

  Mason, Samantha (2019-05-11)

  When establishing an interspecies ethics, it is often the gaze that is used to establish the agency of the animal Other in the absence of logocentric speech. However, when considering the physical realities of the nonhuman ...

• Racism and Resistance: Contextualizing Sorry to Bother You in the Neoliberal Moment 

  Bozarth, Hayden (2019-05-11)

  The goal of this paper is to discuss the historical and theoretical framework of neoliberalism through three films that place the Black body at the center of neoliberal economic and ideological systems: Sorry to Bother You ...

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