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TEMPERATURE-INDUCED SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS IN FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED (FTIR) SPECTROSCOPY. OPTIMIZATION OF VARIABLE TEMPERATURE DIFFUSE REFLECTION FTIR SPECTROSCOPY INSTRUMENTATION
(2016-12-16)
High stability Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) interferometers make it possible to conduct experiments designed to identify subtle sample structure changes resulting from external perturbations. In particular, variable ...
Understanding the Features and Mechanisms of the Great Plains Low-Level Jet in CMIP5 Models
(2016-12)
The Great Plains low-level jet (GPLLJ) is an important driver of precipitation and severe weather outbreaks over the U.S. Great Plains during the spring and summer. Therefore, it is extremely important that features of the ...
Reimagining Advanced Placement World History: When Teaching More Of The Same Is No Longer Enough
(2016-12)
This paper was designed as a way to document my personal growth as I explored ways to honor my identity as an educator while still navigating institutional and societal expectations regarding the meanings and methods of ...
URBAN MOBILITY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION: THE TRANSPORT SYSTEM IN THE METROPOLITAN REGION OF RIO DE JANEIRO
(2016-05)
In this paper, I evaluate urban mobility in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro, giving special consideration to the public transport system, in order to answer the question of whether or not Rio’s mobility system ...
ORAZIO GRASSI AND A 1623 TREATISE ON THE SPHERE: ASTRONOMY AND PHYSICO-MATHEMATICS AT THE COLLEGIO ROMANO IN THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
(2016-12)
The University of Oklahoma History of Science Collections recently acquired a 1623 manuscript which has been attributed to the Jesuit mathematician Orazio Grassi. The first section of the manuscript, entitled “Tractatus ...
BEHAVIORAL AND CHEMICAL MECHANISMS OF A CONDITIONAL SIGNAL IN THE GREEN SWORDTAIL (XIPHOPHORUS HELLERII)
(2016-05)
Color polymorphisms are a common occurrence across most taxa. These differing forms of visual signals can act as a determinant for status and relative attractiveness for the choosy sex in a given species. While this ...
Unifying subject agreement across clause types in Estonian
(2016)
Estonian negated indicative clauses show no agreement, whereas Estonian negated imperative clauses show agreement twice: once on the main verb and once on the negation word ära. This contrasts with affirmative clauses, ...
CONTROLS OF PRE-EXISTING NORMAL FAULTS ON THE GEOMETRY AND LOCATION OF THRUST FAULTS IN FOLD-THRUST BELTS
(2016)
Pre-existing normal faults are commonly cited as influencing both the sequence of faulting and the location of thrust faults in fold-thrust belts. Scaled experimental models for both frictional and ductile detachments were ...
THE REGULATORY MECHANISM OF SECONDARY CELL WALL BIOSYNTHESIS IN GRASSES
(2016-08-10)
Grass cell walls are environmentally and economically important, including being an abundant and sustainable carbon source to produce lignocellulosic biofuels. However, the crosslinked structure of cell walls limits ...
No Easy Thing to Understand: A Historiography of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
(2016-05-14)
The historiography of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran centers on the root causes of social change in Iran. In this way, authors must generally accomplish two things in their histories of the Constitutional Revolution. ...