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Investigation into Oilfield Waste Water Disposal Through Eutectic Freeze Crystallization
(2018-05-11)
The principal question for this thesis is as follows:
“How can freeze crystallization be utilized to treat flowback and produced water from oilfield operations?”
Current waste water disposal methods in the oil industry ...
THE ROLE OF DIVERGENT GENITAL MORPHOLOGIES IN REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION
(2018-05-11)
How a single ancestral species can give rise to new, separate species remains a major outstanding question in evolutionary biology. Understanding speciation requires identifying how reproductive isolation (RI) is initiated ...
The Use of Polarimetric Radar Data for Informing Numerical Weather Prediction Models
(2018-05-11)
The explicit prediction of convective storms using storm-scale models has recently become a reality. Radar data is a crucial source of information about the microphysical and kinematic properties of convection at the ...
Synthesis and characterization of bio-compatible shape memory polymers with potential applications to endovascular embolization of intracranial aneurysms
(2018)
Intracranial aneurysms (ICAs) are focal dilations in the brain's arteries. When left untreated, ICAs can grow to the point of rupture, accounting for 50–80% of subarachnoid hemorrhage cases. Current treatments include ...
Development of a State-Wide Velocity Profile in Oklahoma Using Ambient Noise Seismic Tomography
(2018)
Earthquakes have been a growing concern in the state of Oklahoma in the last several years and as a result, prediction of the ground motion, understanding of subsurface geological structure, and the estimation of accurate ...
Interaction effects in generalized Dirac systems
(2018-07)
Interaction effects in condensed matter systems with chiral quasiparticles at low energy are studied. A prominent example in the category of such systems is monolayer graphene, which has low energy massless Dirac excitations ...
STRESS PATH AND PORE PRESSURE IN AND AROUND A PRODUCING FORMATION PIERCED BY A SALT DOME
(2018)
The pore pressure decrease due to production from a reservoir causes changes in the total and effective stresses, leading to compaction and deformation of the reservoir and the surrounding rocks, which can translate into ...
U.S. Food Diplomacy Landscape: An Exploratory Case Study
(2018)
This exploratory research was undertaken to map out the current landscape of U.S. food diplomacy. This was one of the first studies to condense existing food diplomacy literature to categorize the terms associated with ...
Symphony No. 1 for Band
(2018-05)
The impetus for this piece was twofold; to serve as a pedagogical tool for the student wind ensemble, as well as expanding the repertoire of large-scale band pieces. Each movement has a programmatic relationship to a town ...