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Understanding the Features and Mechanisms of the Great Plains Low-Level Jet in CMIP5 Models
(2016-12)The Great Plains low-level jet (GPLLJ) is an important driver of precipitation and severe weather outbreaks over the U.S. Great Plains during the spring and summer. Therefore, it is extremely important that features of the ... -
UNDERSTANDING THE FUNDAMENTAL DRIVE MECHANISMS FOR HUFF-N-PUFF ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY IN TIGHT FORMATIONS
(2019-12-13)Unconventional oil and gas resources have recently become the major source of produced hydrocarbons in the US. The change in the energy landscape follows nearly two decades of technological breakthroughs including horizontal ... -
Understanding the impact of a STEM explanatory model on STEM-education stakeholders’ conceptions of STEM and STEM integration
(2022-12-17)While STEM education is recognized as a critical priority for national security, health, and economic prosperity, its various and often conflicting meanings, coupled with excessive use of the acronym as a super discipline, ... -
Understanding the impacts of environmental, economic, and policy factors on developing economies
(2023-08-04)The first chapter of this dissertation studies the long-term effects of climate conditions during an individual's birth year on their life cycle. Drawing on data from the India Human Development Survey and monthly rainfall ... -
Understanding the Lowermost Stratosphere in Current and Future Climates: Composition, Definition, and Tropopause-Overshooting Convection
(2023-12-15)The troposphere and the stratosphere are two separate layers of the atmosphere whose dynamics, composition, and chemistry are fundamentally different. This leads to the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) being ... -
UNDERSTANDING THE MOTIVATIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF TEACHERS WHO CHANGE SCHOOLS
(2019-05)Teacher attrition is a challenge that has plagued our public school system for nearly a century. While attrition rates have consistently risen over the past 30 years, the cost of teacher turnover has moved beyond finances, ... -
Understanding the Nature and Impact of Business Models
(2013)As business model centered research has grown significantly over the last decade, the focus has primarily been on establishing an initial understanding of the construct. Much of the existing research has focused on defining ... -
Understanding the role of relational factors in Christian spirituality.
(2005)Researchers developing multidimensional models of relational quality have largely neglected to consider the potential role of relational spirituality in their models. Recent relational spirituality models have emerged ... -
UNDERSTANDING THE SEISMIC RESPONSE OF SINGLE HELICAL PILES IN DRY SANDS USING A LARGE-SCALE SHAKE TABLE TEST
(2017-05)Helical piles are deep foundations composed by a steel shaft and single or multiple helical plates welded at their tip or throughout their lead section, respectively, which allows them to be screwed into the ground during ... -
Understanding the Spatial Ecology and Space Utilization of Copperhead Snakes in Tennessee
(2024-05-10)The exploration of animal movement data has greatly advanced animal habitat studies with broad applications in conservation planning, land management practices that improve habitat quality and connectivity, and resolving ... -
Understanding the Virtue-Relevant Self Through Courage
(2015-03-13)To what extent do differences in who we are predict differences in courage? We propose to de-velop a measure of the virtue-relevant self, which is composed of self-conception, social roles, virtue-relevant values, and ... -
Understanding Thermochemical Process And Feedstock Compositional Impacts On Strategies To Control Pyrolysis And Torrefaction Product Distributions
(2016-05-13)Growing concern about the effects of post-Industrial revolution fossil carbon dioxide release has led to large-scale research efforts to understand how to address and mitigate future fossil CO2 emissions. Within the scope ... -
Understanding transferee assimilation through the analysis of egocentric networks.
(2006)This project expanded on early research and examined employees as they began a new job after undergoing an intra-organizational job transfer. Consistent with earlier research the results demonstrated support for the ideas ... -
Understanding Type Ia Supernova Diversity with PHOENIX
(2022)Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are important astrophysical objects. They produce roughly half of the iron group elements found in the universe, the energy they release drives the evolution of galaxies, and their high ... -
UNDERSTANDING ULTIMATE SHEAR BEHAVIOR OF PRESTRESSED CONCRETE GIRDER BRIDGES AS A SYSTEM THROUGH EXPERIMENTAL TESTING AND ANALYTICAL METHODS
(2017-07)A prestressed concrete bridge is a complex system. The interconnectivity of several girders, a deck, and secondary elements such as diaphragms makes their behavior difficult to represent. Additionally, the shear behavior ... -
Understanding Variation in the Practice of Employee Discipline: The Perspective of the First-Line Supervisor
(Review of Public Personnel Administration, 2003-03-01)First-line supervisors' responses to employee-related problems can vary widely from one supervisor to another. Assuming fair and consistent disciplinary activity is valued by organizations, then discovery of the factors ... -
Understanding Veteran Teachers' Basic Psychological Needs in Relation to Their Self-Determined Motivation: An Exploratory Qualitative Study
(2023-05)Understanding teacher motivation to stay in the classroom can provide insight to teacher retention concerns. The purpose of the study was to determine how veteran teachers’ basic psychological needs related to the veteran ... -
The understandings of the nature of science, learning in science and science teaching held by Oklahoma public school administrators.
(1980)The responsibility of curriculum leadership in the school rests with those persons employed by the local Board of Education to implement its policies. Those persons are employed as superintendents, principals, coordinators, ... -
Understory light and herbaceous plant photosynthesis in Oklahoma forests /
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Unexpected participants in democracy: Refuge, community, and activism in a congregation of the Metropolitan Community Church.
(2001)The findings indicate that this denomination offers a unique contribution by empowering certain individuals who would otherwise not participate in the gay liberation movement. The ethnographic study suggests that in more ...