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THREE ESSAYS ON CONSTRUCTION PROCUREMENT INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC POLICIES
(2011)
This study analyzes construction procurement auctions conducted by Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) focusing on mechanism design and its impact on functioning of the market. First we investigate a recent policy ...
Assimilation of CASA and WSR-88D Radar Data for Tornadic Convective Storms using an Ensemble Kalman Filter and Applications in Probabilistic Ensemble Forecasting
(2011)
Two sets of experiments are performed to examine the ability of a storm-scale numerical weather prediction (NWP) model to predict precipitation and meso-vortices within the tornadic mesoscale convective system (MCS) that ...
Essays in Corporate Governance
(2011)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays that investigate the role and importance of corporate governance in public and private firms. Chapter 1, investigates the role of governance characteristics in determining ...
Newsletter no. 43
(2011)
INHIGEO produces an annual publication that includes information on the commission's activities, national reports, book reviews, interviews and occasional historical articles.
Political Humor and Third-Person Perception
(2011)
Political humor shows like The Daily Show and the Colbert Report are not only very popular, they are also increasingly becoming a legitimate news source for certain audiences (particularly young people). The purpose of ...
Development of a Novel Ex Vivo Scaffold for the Regeneration of Periodontal Tissues
(2011)
Burgeoning knowledge of the principles of tissue engineering has enabled periodontal surgeons to evolve from resective therapies to more regenerative approaches to treat the periodontal diseases that afflict a large portion ...
ANAEROBACULUM HYDROGENIFORMANS: INSIGHTS INTO THE NOVEL BIOCHEMICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ABILITY OF A THERMOPHILIC BIOCATALYST THAT CAN UTILIZE BOTH DEFINED AND UNDEFINED SUBSTRATES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF RENEWABLE HYDROGEN ENERGY
(2011)
This body of work describes the bacterium Anaerobaculum hydrogeniformans strain OS1, a novel anaerobic, moderately thermophilic, NaCl-requiring fermentative bacterium that was isolated from oil production water collected ...
Sex Disparities in Arrest Outcomes for Domestic Violence
(Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011-05-01)
Domestic violence arrests have been historically focused on protecting women and children from abusive men. Arrest patterns continue to reflect this bias with more men arrested for domestic violence compared to women. Such ...
Survivable Logical Topology Mapping under Multiple Constraints in IP-over-WDM Networks
(2011)
The survivable logical topology mapping problem in an IP-over-WDM network deals with the cascading effect of link failures from the bottom (physical) layer to the upper (logical) layer. Multiple logical links may get ...
EVALUATION OF RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF ASPHALT BINDERS FOR PAVEMENT DESIGN APPLICATIONS
(2011)
More that 90% of the total paved roadways in the U.S. are asphalt concrete (AC) pavements. The annual expenditures for construction and maintenance of these pavements exceed $10 billion. To reduce these maintenance costs, ...