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Effects of Fuel Unsaturation on Pollutant Emissions from the Laminar Flames of Prevaporized Petroleum and Biodiesel Blends in Air
(2017-05)
Biodiesels, considered as alternative fuels to petroleum diesel, are defined as fatty acid methyl or ethyl esters derived from triglycerides of vegetable oils or animal fats. The utilization of biodiesels reduces greenhouse ...
Decolonizing hybridity: indigenous video, knowledge, and diffraction
(Cultural Geographies, 2012-07-01)
This article examines the hybrid cultural geographies of indigenous video with Donna Haraway’s visual strategy of diffraction. Drawing on ethnographic inquiry, one particular video is explored from three different perspectives. ...
HAND GESTURES FOR DRONE CONTROL USING DEEP LEARNING
(2018-12)
Commercial drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are rapidly becoming more prevalent and are used in many different applications, such as surveillance for sporting events, transportation for emergency ...
Interdependent Impacts of Disruption Management Strategies: Risk-Based Applications to Port Closures, Natural Disasters, and Oil Spills
(2012)
Recent disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan disabled production facilities, created supply shortages, disrupted business operations, and altered ...
The diffusion of new media and radar technology and the role of broadcasters' prior experience and public perceptions in television severe weather coverage
(2010)
Broadcast meteorologists are the top source of information for people during severe weather in the U.S. (Hayes, 2009; Legates & Biddle, 1999; Schmidlin & King, 1997; Sherman-Morris, 2009) and play an important role in ...
CAN YOU SPARE SOME (SOCIAL) CHANGE? PARTICIPATORY MEDIA AS CATALYSTS FOR CHANGE IN POOR AND HOMELESS COMMUNITIES
(2014)
Increase in empowerment and accurate representation for lower socioeconomic status groups is a dire and growing need in America. This dissertation examines how participatory media processes can serve as catalysts for change ...
Dehn Functions of the Stallings-Bieri Groups and Constructions of Non-Unique Product Groups
(2015-05-08)
This thesis will consist of two separate halves in which we will present results concerning two different families of finitely generated torsion-free groups. The themes of each half are quite different and are related to ...
UNDERSTANDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) AS A PROFESSIONAL FIELD
(2012)
This dissertation is based on an exploratory study of GIS as it has evolved as a professional field. This study is relevant because it provides a fundamentally different approach to study professionals within a particular ...
Bilateral Fatigue of the Anterior Tibialis in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis
(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 ...
Police Electronic Citation Mobile System for Statewide Deployment in Oklahoma
(2018-05-11)
Collecting timely and accurate data for traffic citations and accident reports are important goals for law enforcement. Manually filled paper forms have historically contained content errors, took longer time to complete, ...