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The Unconventional Thesis of an Unconventional Educator: A Heightened Performative Autoethnography
(2016-12-16)
This is an unconventional thesis about the reflective look back at my first year of
teaching. The purpose of the thesis is to advocate for future, new, and current
teachers to start using the reflective practice to enhance ...
Development of Nanoparticle Membrane Enhanced Nanocomposites with Sensing Function
(2016-12-16)
Damage and load sensing is rapidly advancing as driven by vast applications in aerospace and mechanical structures. However, most previous research focused on the improvement of material properties for sensing applications. ...
BIG DATA ANALYTICS SOLUTION FOR SMALL CELLS DEPLOYMENT USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES
(2016-12)
This thesis presents a “Novel Small Cell Planning Solution using Machine learning”. The Telecom service providers are interested in estimating various trends in order to plan future upgrades and deployments driven by real ...
NUCLEAR FACTOR Y, Subunit C (NF-YC) Transcription Factors Are Positive Regulators of Photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana
(PLos Genetics, 2016-09-29)
Author Summary Light perception is critically important for the fitness of plants in both natural and agricultural settings. Plants not only use light for photosynthesis, but also as a cue for proper development. As a ...
Impact of Viscous Acid-in-Oil Emulsion Formation on Well Productivity Following Acid Stimulation
(2016-12-16)
Acid stimulation techniques matrix acidizing and acid fracturing are commonly applied in carbonate reservoirs. The goal of such techniques is to increase well productivity by enhancing permeability in the near wellbore ...
QUANTIFYING HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY IN MINE DRAINAGE PASSIVE TREATMENT SYSTEM VERTICAL FLOW BIOREACTORS
(2016-12)
Heavy industrial mining has occurred in the United States for more than 100 years, and in many cases, has led to large-scale environmental degradation, especially from historical operations where mining occurred prior to ...
Rhetoric and Gesture in the Performance of Seventeenth-Century Vocal Music
(2016)
In this document I approach the performance of seventeenth-century vocal music via rhetorically-informed analytical procedures. I draw from primary sources such as Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria and several seventeenth ...
UTILIZATION OF CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHIC PROXIES FOR GENERATING AND REFINING SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORKS IN MUDROCKS AND SHALES
(2016)
Recent advances in handheld XRF (HHXRF) technology provide an opportunity to demonstrate the utility of chemostratigraphy within mudrock successions. Three cores from Lincoln, Pottawatomie, and Pontotoc Counties in Oklahoma ...
An intercomparison of Landsat land surface temperature retrieval methods under variable atmospheric conditions using in situ skin temperature
(2016)
Land surface temperature (LST) retrieved from Landsat is a valuable resource for understanding land cover change, monitoring the urban heat island effect, and modeling hydrological and carbon cycles, among other applications. ...
An Examination Of Oklahoma Education Funding Adequacy And District Spending Efficiency
(2016-05-13)
From 2009 to 2014, school districts in Oklahoma faced the challenge of educating a growing population of students to high academic standards and increased accountability while state aid has been restricted to flat or ...