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Interdependent Impacts of Disruption Management Strategies: Risk-Based Applications to Port Closures, Natural Disasters, and Oil Spills
(2012)
Recent disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan disabled production facilities, created supply shortages, disrupted business operations, and altered ...
The diffusion of new media and radar technology and the role of broadcasters' prior experience and public perceptions in television severe weather coverage
(2010)
Broadcast meteorologists are the top source of information for people during severe weather in the U.S. (Hayes, 2009; Legates & Biddle, 1999; Schmidlin & King, 1997; Sherman-Morris, 2009) and play an important role in ...
CAN YOU SPARE SOME (SOCIAL) CHANGE? PARTICIPATORY MEDIA AS CATALYSTS FOR CHANGE IN POOR AND HOMELESS COMMUNITIES
(2014)
Increase in empowerment and accurate representation for lower socioeconomic status groups is a dire and growing need in America. This dissertation examines how participatory media processes can serve as catalysts for change ...
Dehn Functions of the Stallings-Bieri Groups and Constructions of Non-Unique Product Groups
(2015-05-08)
This thesis will consist of two separate halves in which we will present results concerning two different families of finitely generated torsion-free groups. The themes of each half are quite different and are related to ...
UNDERSTANDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) AS A PROFESSIONAL FIELD
(2012)
This dissertation is based on an exploratory study of GIS as it has evolved as a professional field. This study is relevant because it provides a fundamentally different approach to study professionals within a particular ...
Bilateral Fatigue of the Anterior Tibialis in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis
(2017-08)
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common progressive neurological diseases in young adults and is characterized by neurologic disruption within the central nervous system. Fatigue has been reported as one of the ...
Police Electronic Citation Mobile System for Statewide Deployment in Oklahoma
(2018-05-11)
Collecting timely and accurate data for traffic citations and accident reports are important goals for law enforcement. Manually filled paper forms have historically contained content errors, took longer time to complete, ...
THE EFFECTS OF AGING ON MYOSTATIN PATHWAY ACTIVITY AFTER THREE SEQUENTIAL BOUTS OF RESISTANCE EXERCISE
(2010)
Background. Myostatin signaling serves to regulate skeletal muscle mass by influencing genes responsible for regulating satellite cell activity and by participating in glucocorticoid induced skeletal muscle atrophy; however ...
Heterogeneity of clastic provenance to the Anadarko Basin and implications for paleogeography
(2018)
Thin section petrography and U/Pb detrital zircon geochronology were used to reconstruct Middle-Late Pennsylvanian drainage pathways into the Anadarko Basin, and evaluating the relative proportion of sediment originating ...
FUNDAMENTAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA INVOLVED IN THE CATALYSIS AT THE WATER-OIL INTERFACE OF NANOHYBRID-STABILIZED EMULSIONS
(2012)
The development of reactive-separation processes in which products are separated from the reaction media (i.e. reactants and catalysts) in a single reaction unit is prized by energy and chemicals industries for its simplicity ...