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Relativity of Motion: The Moving Ship Thought Experiment
(2015)
Galileo's "Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World," includes a discussion about dropping balls from the mast of both a moving ship and a ship at rest in order to test the theory of inertia. If sailors actually had ...
National Identity in Higher Education: The Guardianship of a Kingdom
(2016-12-17)
Changes in the structure of higher education in Saudi Arabia and through advanced scholarship programs abroad have resulted in an educational reformation within the country. Though the Saudi Monarchy desires to create a ...
Facilitative Influences on Organizational Planning
(2015-07-13)
Planning is one of the most important aspects of performance in organizations. The present study investigates a number of facilitative influences on organizational planning, including the threat of external pressure in the ...
Continuous and Adaptive Cartographic Generalization of River Networks
(2012)
The focus of our research is on a new automated smoothing method and its applications. Traditionally, the application of a smoothing method to a collection of polylines produces a new smoothed dataset. Although the new ...
Estimation and Analysis of Atmospheric Vortices
(2013)
ESTIMATION AND ANALYSIS OF ATMOSPHERIC VORTICES
Journal of the Faculty Senate, April 13, 2015
(The University of Oklahoma Faculty Senate, 2015-04-13)
Building Social Capital Through Rhetoric and Public Relations
(Management Communication Quarterly, 2011-08-01)
When the focus is on meaning making, language, rhetorical argument, and persuasion, there is enormous potential to see how public relations theory and practice in external organizational rhetoric can serve community ...
Variability of Tropical Cyclones in the Philippines
(2014-05-09)
The massive impacts of tropical cyclones (TCs) on the Philippines are well known. This study provides an improved understanding of TC activity in the country, allowing improved risk mitigation strategies that possibly can ...
ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSES OF WELLBORE DRILLED IN ELASTOPLASTIC POROUS FORMATIONS
(2012)
The current wellbore stability analyses for analytical solutions are mostly based on the linear elastic or poroelastic theory. The wellbore is regarded as unstable if the determined elastic/poroelastic stresses anywhere ...