• EFFECT OF DIOIC ACIDS ON FERRIC IRON REDUCTION BY SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS MR-1 AND CARBON STEEL CORROSION 

  KOKBUDAK, HATICE NURSAH (2017-12)

  Corrosion represents a tremendous burden on infrastructure and industries such as the oil and gas industry. According to National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE), total annual cost of steel corrosion in the oil ...

• Process Induced Defects in Liquid Molding Processes of Composites 

  Hamidi, Youssef K.; Altan, M. Cengiz (2017-11)

  Liquid Composite Molding (LCM) processes are cost efficient manufacturing alternatives to traditional autoclave technology for producing near-net shape structural composite parts. However, process induced defects often ...

• Tolerance and Intolerance in Political Discourse on Twitter during the U.S. 2016 Presidential Election 

  Dastgeer, Shugofa (2017-08-26)

  This study explored tolerance and intolerance in political discourse on Twitter during the U.S. 2016 election. It was a combination of social network analysis of four Twitter networks the day before the election, the day ...

• Phosphatidylserine Targeted Biotechnology Agents for Cancer 

  Virani, Needa (2017-08-16)

  Cancer is a highly mutating disease that quickly develops resistance to chemotherapies and has a high rate of relapse. If detected early, the survival rate is greater than 90% for most cancers; however if diagnosed during ...

• Theory and observations of bores in the nocturnal environment of the Great Plains 

  Haghi, Kevin (2017-08-03)

  Accurate representation of bores in forecast models is a challenge. This challenge is of considerable interest to both the operational and the research communities because bores are capable of producing vertical displacements ...

• Evolution of Specific Differential Phase in Squall Lines and Corresponding Lightning Channels 

  Zounes, Zackery (2017-08-01)

  Dual-polarimetric radar products have been used in observing changes and persistence of thunderstorm electric fields in relation to lightning discharges. One such product, specific differential phase (KDP), is valuable ...

• VAPOR PHASE UPGRADING OF RENEWABLE CARBOXYLIC ACIDS AND OXYGENATES OVER BRØNSTED ZEOLITES 

  GUMIDYALA, ABHISHEK (2017-08)

  Ketonization of acetic acid is a powerful route to convert these problematic acids into stable building blocks to produce fuels and chemicals. This reaction is investigated over HZSM-5 via a combination of temperature ...

• Community-Level Impacts of Wind Power in Oklahoma 

  Castleberry, Becca (2017-08)

  Wind power development in Oklahoma has expanded rapidly in the past decade, going from no installed capacity to producing over 20 percent of the state’s energy. Given the industry’s rapid development, there has been mixed ...

• New Implication of Short Circuit Analysis in Assessing Impact of Renewable Energy Resources on System Strength of a Power Grid 

  Javadi, Milad (2017-08-01)

  The increasing penetration of renewable resources raised a new challenge in power system planning and operation to maintain system reliability. Several serious operational issues may take place when significant amount of ...

• SEISMIC DATA MULTI-SPECTRAL ANALYSIS, ATTENUATION ESTIMATION AND SEISMIC SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY ENHANCEMENT APPLIED TO CONVENTIONAL AND UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIRS 

  Li, Fangyu (2017-08)

  Seismic data are an essential resource for interpretation, providing abundant information about geological structures, sedimentation, stratigraphy and reservoir quality. Geophysicists have dedicated tremendous efforts in ...

• APPLICATION OF INTEGRATIVE BEHAVIOR MODEL TO PREDICT INITIATION OR MAINTENANCE OF STOPPING BINGE DRINKING AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY 

  Bhochhibhoya, Amir (2017-08)

  With the heightened risk for serious social and physiological consequences, binge drinking is arguably the single most important preventable cause of morbidity and mortality among college students. The negative consequences ...

• Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)/Carbon Nanofiber Nanocomposite with Piezoresistive Sensing Functions 

  Chowdhury, Shoieb Ahmed (2017-08)

  Flexible material that can be deployed for sensing a wide range of pressure and strain is an active research area due to potential applications in engineering and biomedical devices. Current load sensing materials such as ...

• Hidden tensions: An exploration of multiple company employees' social identities in the U.S. and China 

  Guo, Yijia (2017-08-01)

  This dissertation examined Chinese and U.S. organizational members’ multiple social identities and how they engaged in identity work to develop, organize, revise, and manage identity tensions that emerge from various ...

• Climate Threats from Kyoto to Paris: Framing and Images in Securitizing Climate Change Discourses 

  Douglas, Collin (2017-08-01)

  Climate change is an issue that presents many threats that are dispersed according to geography and vulnerability. Climate change exists within separate discourses and is framed uniquely in each discourse. The question ...

• A PALEOMAGNETIC AND PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF UNCONFORMITY SURFACES IN NEVADA AND MISSOURI: POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOWEATHERING PROCESSES 

  Spencer, Brandon (2017-08)

  Paleomagnetic dating has proven to be a valuable tool in dating geologically significant events such as timing of deposition, deformation, or diagenesis. When combined with petrographic methods and field relationships, we ...

• African Easterly Wave Tracks as Simulated by CMIP5 Models 

  Brannan, Allison (2017-08)

  African Easterly Waves (AEWs) impact Sahel rainfall and serve as trigger disturbances for tropical cyclones (TCs) in the North Atlantic Ocean. So far, there has been very little investigation into future changes in intensity ...

• THE ADDITION OF VALENCE AND NARRATIVE ENDINGS’ INFLUENCE ON THE RISK CONVERGENCE MODEL 

  Lookadoo, Kathryn (2017-08-01)

  The risk convergence model (RCM) was developed as a theoretical framework to organize research on media effects and narrative persuasion (So & Nabi, 2013). The model identifies social distance to a fictional character as ...

• Relationship between soleus H reflex and balance metrics in people with multiple sclerosis 

  Cantrell, Gregory (2017-08)

  Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic immune-mediated disease that wreaks havoc on the central nervous system (CNS). The disease attacks and degrades the myelin sheath that insulates axons in the CNS, as well as the cells ...

• Infrastructure Network Resilience and Economic Impacts: Applications in Multi-Modal Freight Transportation 

  Darayi, Mohamad (2017-08-01)

  The US has defined a number of critical infrastructures, the disruption of which “would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those ...

• Bilateral Fatigue of the Anterior Tibialis in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis 

  Lantis, David (2017-08)

  Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common progressive neurological diseases in young adults and is characterized by neurologic disruption within the central nervous system. Fatigue has been reported as one of the ...

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