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Modeling of 85th Percentile Speed for Rural Highways for Enhanced Traffic Safety (FHWA-OK-11-07 2211)
(2011-7)
Traffic operation on two-lane rural highways and setting posted speed limits are some of the difficult tasks faced by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) and other transportation agencies. The present study ...
The British Image of Empire in the Victorian Novel
(2011)
In my dissertation, I analyze six novels from five British authors, beginning with William Makepeace Thackeray's <Vanity Fair> (1847) and moving on to Charlotte Bronte's <Jane Eyre>, Emily Bronte's <Wuthering Heights>, ...
Essays in Corporate Finance and Bond Interest Rate Volatility
(2011)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays in corporate finance and bond interest rate volatility. Chapter 1 investigates the impact of TARP preferred stock on two different types of outstanding preferred stock. The ...
Hypothesis Generation: Temporal Dynamics
(2011)
In order to bring structure to many of the judgment and decision making problems people encounter, decision makers are often required to generate, from memory, hypotheses explaining their observations. This dissertation ...
Developing Leadership for Creative Efforts: A Preface
(Advances in Developing Human Resources, 2011-08-01)
Michael D. Mumford is the George Lynn Cross distinguished research professor of psychology at the University of Oklahoma where he directs the Center for Applied Social Research. He received his doctoral degree from the ...
Energy Harvesting on Highway Bridges (FHWA-OK-11-01 2224)
(2011-1)
A concept for harvesting energy from the traffic-induced loadings on a highway bridge using piezoelectric
materials to generate electricity was explored through the prototype stage. A total of sixteen lead-zirconate
titanate ...
Plant uptake, time trends, and natural attenuation of selected metals in an abandoned mining district
(2011)
Soils, vegetation, and water in the abandoned Tri-State mining district are contaminated by lead, zinc, and other metals. To investigate trends in lead and zinc concentrations in the environment for past periods when little ...
Gothic Modernisms: Aesthetics, Politics, Culture
(2011)
I analyze the persistence of Gothic conventions in the works of four major British modernist writers: Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and D. H Lawrence. These writers depict cultural, political, and aesthetic ...
SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING AND HYDROLOGIC MODELING FOR FLOOD MONITORING IN DATA POOR ENVIRONMENTS
(2011)
Study of hydroclimatology at a range of temporal scales is important in understanding and ultimately mitigating the potential severe impacts of hydrological extreme events such as floods and droughts. Using daily in-situ ...
Problems in the design and operation of uncertain complex engineering systems
(2011)
In this dissertation, we consider two problems. The first one is a general approach to the optimal design of uncertain dynamical systems, where the uncertainty is represented by a random parameter. The problem is formulated ...