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QUANTIFYING COSTS AND BENEFITS OF SUSTAINABLE PROJECTS IN THE CITY OF OKLAHOMA CITY
(2013-12)Advocates of sustainable design and construction have asserted for years that sustainability can be designed and built without additional expense, however this premise has not been proven. For public projects, potential ... -
Quantifying Crises’ Effects on Organizational Reputation
(2017-05-13)Crisis communication research has been significantly advanced over the past 50 years with models and theories. But it lacks a method for assigning objective, numerical values to how severe a crisis is on an organization’s ... -
QUANTIFYING HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY IN MINE DRAINAGE PASSIVE TREATMENT SYSTEM VERTICAL FLOW BIOREACTORS
(2016-12)Heavy industrial mining has occurred in the United States for more than 100 years, and in many cases, has led to large-scale environmental degradation, especially from historical operations where mining occurred prior to ... -
QUANTIFYING PARTICLE TRANSPORTATION FOR UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION
(2017-12)The objectives of this research dissertation include: (1) develop a novel procedure of single well chemical tracer test (SWCTT) and modification of method of moments (MoM) to estimate mobile oil saturation; (2) apply ... -
Quantifying Precipitation Efficiency and Drivers of Excessive Precipitation in Post-Landfall Hurricane Harvey
(2019)Hurricane Harvey produced widespread rainfall amounts over 1000 mm in portions of Southeast Texas, including Houston from 26-31 August 2017. The highly efficient and prolonged warm rain processes associated with Harvey ... -
Quantifying Solar-Powered Removal of Aqueous and Gaseous Sulfide in a Mine Water Passive Treatment System
(2018-12-14)Passive treatment systems can improve water quality for mine water discharges. However, some process units, like vertical flow bioreactors (VFBRs), may produce excess sulfide, which can be a source of nuisance odors and ... -
Quantifying spatial-temporal stability to drought in a semi-arid shortgrass prairie ecosystem
(2022-05)Drought is known to cause negative ecological impacts in grasslands, with areas prone to drought expected to experience increases in both severity and frequency in the coming years. Cimarron County, Oklahoma is located at ... -
Quantifying the Costs and Benefits of Pavement Retexturing as a Pavement Preservation Tool
(2011)The objective of this research was to leverage research done abroad in Australia and New Zealand, as well as research conducted within the United States to determine the role pavement preservation treatments have on safety ... -
Quantifying the Effect of De-Emulsifiers on Acid Treatment in Carbonate Formations
(2021-02-21)Matrix acidizing is a highly successful, effective, and relatively inexpensive approach to enhancing well productivity in carbonate formations. Accordingly, there has been little motivation to address the ways to optimize ... -
Quantifying the Impact of Asphaltene Precipitation on Sandstone Wettability
(2017-12)Asphaltene precipitation, and the resulting decline in oil production, has for long been identified as a severe problem in oil reservoirs. The deposition of these high molecular weight oil fractions in pore spaces have ... -
Quantifying the Impact of Experimental Factors on the Measurement of Dynamic Capillary Effects in Unsaturated Porous Media
(2014-12-12)Multiphase flow is an important phenomenon in many natural and engineering systems; for example, oil recovery and water movement in the unsaturated zone are two common multiphase flow systems. The capillary pressure-saturation ... -
Quantifying the intact proteome: optimization of analytical methods for high-throughput top-down proteomics
(2023-05-12)Proteins play an indispensable cellular role within organisms and participate in a majority of biological functions, including enzymatic catalysis, immune reaction, and signaling. Multiple forms of a protein (i.e., ... -
Quantifying the Physics and Energetics of Iron Low-Ionization Broad Absorption-Line Quasar Outflows
(2022)Quasars are among the most luminous and massive objects in the universe. They host an actively accreting supermassive black hole (SMBH) at their centre that can power energetic phenomena that outshine the host galaxy. A ... -
Quantifying the spatio-temporal dynamics of woody plant encroachment using an integrative remote sensing, GIS, and spatial modeling approach.
(2007)Despite a longstanding universal concern about and intensive research into woody plant encroachment (WPE)---the replacement of grasslands by shrub- and woodlands---our accumulated understanding of the process has either ... -
QUANTIFYING UNCERTAINTIES IN GLOBAL AND NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS USING A MULTI-THOUSAND MEMBER GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL PERTURBED PHYSICS ENSEMBLE
(2013-11)Information on the uncertainties in projections of future climate change from global climate models (GCMs) is vital for their effective use across a wide range of applications, including their increasing role in driving ... -
Quantitative analysis of material contrasts and wave propagation in periodic layered media.
(2006)Dispersive behavior is studied in detail. It is shown that there are critical contrasts at which different stop-bands disappear, as well as a critical angle at which all stop-bands disappear. This characterization of the ... -
Quantitative Analysis of Rapid-Scan Phased Array Weather Radar Benefits and Data Quality Under Various Scan Conditions
(2020-05-08)Currently, NEXRAD provides weather radar coverage for the contiguous United States. It is believed that a replacement system for NEXRAD will be in place by the year 2040, where a major goal of such a system is to provide ... -
Quantitative Analysis of Social Media Sensitivity to Natural Disasters
(2015)The use of social media platforms such as Facebook or Twitter increased exponentially over the last years. They have become a major tool for people to communicate, and for news media to relay their content. In parallel ...