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Investigation and Demonstration of Turbidity Reduction in Stormwater Runoff for Oklahoma Highway Construction Sites (FHWA-OK-13-13 2237)
(2013-12)
The Environmental protection Agency (USEPA) has issued new requirements on the construction industry to control the discharge of pollutants from the sites. The construction effluent guidelines or ELG’s require construction ...
ADAPTIVE AND SECURE DISTRIBUTED SOURCE CODING FOR VIDEO AND IMAGE COMPRESSION
(2013)
Distributed Video Coding (DVC) is rapidly gaining popularity as a low cost, robust video coding solution, that reduces video encoding complexity. DVC is built on Distributed Source Coding (DSC) principles where correlation ...
Exploratory Case Studies of the Role of the Community School Coordinator: Developing the School Social Network in Urban Elementary Schools
(2013)
This exploratory case study examines the role of the community school coordinator (CSC) in the community school model in two urban elementary schools. It seeks to understand how the role and responsibilities of a community ...
Quantitative Geophysical Investigations at the Diamond M field, Scurry County, Texas
(2013)
The Diamond M field over the Horseshoe Atoll reservoir of west Texas has produced oil since 1942. Even with some 210 well penetrations, complex reservoir compartmentalization has justified an ongoing drilling program with ...
Motivated Misperception? Party, Education, Partisan News, and Belief in “Death Panels”
(Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2013-03-01)
This study drew on the literature in motivated reasoning and 2009 Pew survey data to examine the roles of partisanship, education, news exposure, and their interactions in the misperception that health care reform would ...
Multiple-Porosity and Multiple-Permeability Poroelasticity
(2013)
Since the advent of basic ideas in the theory of fluid seepage in fissured porous media, much effort has been placed in engineering and science departments of various disciplines in trying to foster the concept of dual-porosity ...
WHAT GENDER CHARACTERISTICS, NORMS, AND ROLES MAY BE REPRESENTED IN THE THREE POPULAR YOUNG ADULT NOVEL BOOK SERIES HARRY POTTER, TWILIGHT, AND HUNGER GAMES?
(2013-12)
This dissertation research project explores the areas of gender characteristics, norms, and roles as may be interpreted by young people through the reading of the three popular young adult book series Harry Potter, Twilight, ...
How Outstanding Leaders Lead with Affect: An Examination of Charismatic, Ideological, and Pragmatic Leaders
(2013)
The CIP Model of Leadership has received increased attention within the past decade. Research in this area has examined how leaders develop mental models, frame messages, communicate goals, and utilize political tactics ...
The Role of Identification in Giving Sense to Unethical Organizational Behavior: Defending the Organization
(Management Communication Quarterly, 2013-05-01)
This language production experiment investigates communication’s role in defending, and therefore giving sense to, organizational wrongdoing. The study suggests identification may possibly reduce organizations’ moral ...