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Catalytic Hydrodeoxygenation of Phenolic Compounds of Importance in Bio-oil Upgrading
(2014-05)
Economic and environmental concerns including the increasing energy consumption and demand, ensuring energy security, reducing green-house gas emission and producing cleaner energy have caused tremendous interest in research ...
Picking Our Pundits: Identifying Factors of Source Credibility in Politics
(2014-12)
This paper assesses the role parasocial interaction has on perceptions of credibility, especially in terms of political commentators. Parasocial interaction and the concept of entertainment education create a framework to ...
IMAGE AND VIDEO ENHANCEMENT USING SPARSE CODING, BELIEF PROPAGATION AND MATRIX COMPLETION
(2014-12-01)
Super resolution as an exciting application in image processing was studied widely
in the literature. This dissertation presents new approaches to video super resolution,
based on sparse coding and belief propagation. ...
Understanding A+B bidding patterns and policy implications for ODOT project lettings
(Oklahoma City, OK : Oklahoma Department of Transportation, 2014., 2014-10)
We first surveyed all Transportation Agencies on their rules of implementation of A+B and incentive/disincentive designs. A complete survey of A+B and I/D letting practice is presented. Policy details such as application, ...
SUBSURFACE AND OUTCROP ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE EAGLE FORD SHALE (CENOMANIAN-CONIACIAN) IN WEST, SOUTHWEST, CENTRAL, AND EAST TEXAS
(2014-05-01)
A comprehensive organic geochemical analysis was performed to a suite of outcrops and core samples from the Eagle Ford Shale Group from West, Southwest, Central and East Texas with the aim of determining variations in ...
Journal of the Faculty Senate, April 14, 2014
(The University of Oklahoma Faculty Senate, 2014-04-14)
Making our measures match perceptions: Do severity and type matter when assessing academic misconduct offenses
(2014-09-26)
Traditional approaches to measurement of violations of academic integrity may overestimate the magnitude and severity of cheating and confound panic with planned cheating. Differences in the severity and level of premeditation ...
MODERN INNOVATIONS IN AMERICAN TRUMPET MOUTHPIECE DESIGN
(2014-05-09)
In the early part of the 20th century, technological advancements in machinery allowed the production of trumpet mouthpieces to become more consistent than ever before. Vincent Bach and his contemporaries improved upon ...
REVEALING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT ELECTRICITY MARKET UNDERLYING POWER SYSTEM USING POWER SYSTEM PRINCIPLES AND PUBLISHED MARKET RESULTS
(2014)
In this dissertation we provide a novel estimation framework designed and structured on duality theory for estimation of some key parameters in electricity markets. Specifically, the framework uses financial transmission ...
HiMean: A HyGene Approach to Semantic Analysis in a Medical Decision-Making Task
(2014)
This dissertation makes an exploratory comparison between two semantics models, Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) and a newly introduced HiMean model based on the HyGene architecture, in a medical decision-making context. ...