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De Senghor à Mabanckou parricide, rhizome et éthique de l’identité
(2016-12)
In my dissertation, “De Senghor à Mabanckou: parricide, rhizome et éthique de l'identité,” I draw on concepts developed by Harold Bloom in The Anxiety of influence (1973) to argue that, as a francophone, sub-Saharan African ...
EFFECT OF MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES LENGTH, DENSITY, POWDER SIZE AND PRE-TREATMENT METHOD ON ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYCARBONATE/MWCNT COMPOSITES
(2016-05-13)
The combine effect of nanotube pre-treatment method (freeze drying (FD) vs. oven drying (OD) ), density, powder size and length of fourteen multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) on the dispersion and further on the ...
ESTABLISHMENT OF A RARE RIPARIAN TREE, ALNUS MARITIMA
(2016-12-16)
Alnus maritima is a rare, riparian tree species showing no recruitment from seeds. We conducted studies to identify factors potentially limiting establishment. First, we surveyed current known populations to determine ...
Affective Pictures and the Open Library of Affective Foods (OLAF): Tools to Investigate Emotions toward Food in Adults
(PLos One, 2016-08-11)
Recently, several sets of standardized food pictures have been created, supplying both food images and their subjective evaluations. However, to date only the OLAF (Open Library of Affective Foods), a set of food images ...
SULFIDE STRESS CRACKING BEHAVIOR OF GRADE C-110, Q-125 AND T-95 STEEL TUBULARS UNDER HIGH-PRESSURE CONDITIONS
(2016-12-16)
Due to the expansion of hydrocarbon exploration into challenging sour oil and gas resources, the industry is now facing severe sour related corrosion problem. Sulfide Stress Cracking (SSC) is one of the detrimental types ...
Singing Redface: The Misappropriation of American Indian Culture in Popular Music
(2016-12)
This project examines the role of cultural appropriation in the creation of Native American stereotypes that are present in Western popular music in post-colonial America through the completion of an in-progress book. ...
Factors Influencing Decision Making in Networked Organizations: A Case Study on Leadership and the Formation of the Non-Department of Defense Schools Program (NDSP) Task Force
(2016-05-13)
The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) and the United States military fall under the purview of the Secretary of Defense. However, leaders at multiple levels within this organization do not systematically ...
AN INVESTIGATION INTO DEMOGRAPHIC AND MACROSOCIAL CAUSES OF SIX GREENHOUSE GASES
(2016-05-13)
The single largest ecological crisis facing the world in the coming century is the problem of climate change and its impacts. The state of the world today is the direct result of the history of unequal exchange between ...
INTERRELATING PRODUCTION ANALYSIS WITH PORE SCALE STRUCTURE IN THE BAKKEN RESERVOIR
(2016)
Improving well performance and associated project economics in oil resource plays rely on developing reservoir characterization capabilities. The need for understanding pore-scale geometry in low porosity low permeability ...
Interband Cascade Structures for Infrared Photodetectors and Thermophotovoltaic Devices
(2016-12-16)
Interband cascade (IC) devices are a family of quantum engineered heterostructures that include: IC lasers (ICLs), IC infrared photodetectors (ICIPs) and IC thermophotovoltaic (ICTPV) devices. In these structures, the ...