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TRANSIENT TEMPERATURE BEHAVIOR IN WELLBORE AND SURROUNDING FORMATION
(2017-05-12)
Transient temperature behavior in a wellbore develops as a result of heat exchange between fluid in the wellbore and surrounding formation as the hot fluid from reservoir moves upward in production, or vice versa during ...
The Rhetoric of Ecological Food: Environmental and Technological God Terms in Blue Apron, Soylent, and Slow Food
(2017-05-12)
The rhetoric and language surrounding technologically and environmentally oriented food systems illustrate that what and how we eat shapes the way we think about food, ecology, and the world. Analyzing the rhetoric of ...
INVESTIGATING MICROSTRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY IN ORGANIC SHALE VIA LARGE-SCALE, HIGH RESOLUTION SEM IMAGING
(2017)
The physical properties of shale are fundamentally controlled by its microstructure; however, shale is problematic due to microstructural heterogeneity that can exist across multiple scales. This creates difficulty in ...
Community-Level Impacts of Wind Power in Oklahoma
(2017-08)
Wind power development in Oklahoma has expanded rapidly in the past decade, going from no installed capacity to producing over 20 percent of the state’s energy. Given the industry’s rapid development, there has been mixed ...
PROCESS SEDIMENTOLOGY OF THE GUADALUPIAN RADER LIMESTON, DELAWARE BASIN
(2017)
An integrated LiDAR, XRF, Spectral Gamma Ray, and outcrop investigation was performed on the upper Guadalupian Rader Formation in the Delaware Basin of West Texas. The Rader Formation, is an upper slope carbonate submarine ...
HIGH-THROUGHPUT FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY FOR AUTOMATED CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
(2017-05-12)
Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is a powerful tool for visualizing and detecting genetic abnormalities. Manual scoring FISH analysis is a tedious and labor-and-time-consuming task. Automated image acquisition and ...
Bias and bias remediation in creative problem-solving: Managing biases through forecasting
(2017)
Although scholars have identified many variables that affect creative problem-solving, less attention has been given to variables that might lead to failure in creative problem-solving. One set of variables that might lead ...
ESSAYS ON INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT TREATIES, INVESTOR-STATE DISPUTES AND DOUBLE TAX TREATIES
(2017-12-15)
Chapter 1 explores the effects of international investment treaties on institutional quality. Capital importing countries use bilateral investment treaties (BITs) as a means to attract foreign investors who see these ...
Blowoff characteristics of partially premixed flames of prevaporized blends of biofuels and petroleum fuels
(2017-12-15)
The laminar partially premixed flames of prevaporized Jet A, canola methyl ester (CME), palm methyl ester (PME), soy methyl ester (SME), and blend flames of Jet A and CME-PME-SME were studied over a range of equivalence ...
"The Burro Evil": The Eradication of Feral Burros in Grand Canyon National Park
(2017-05-12)
A population of feral burros has lived in the Grand Canyon since Spanish conquistadors brought the animals to North America in the sixteenth century. More burros entered the canyon in the late nineteenth century with ...