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Shadows in the Cognitive Terrain: Suicide Terrorism and the Role of Ideology
(2016)
Presents a historic review on the role of ideology on suicide terrorism. Reviews research from cognitive psychology and anthropology to describe how ideology influences individual perception and decision making to become ...
EFFECT OF AN ACUTE HIGH FAT MEAL IN HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS: THE EXERCISE PRESSOR RESPONSE
(2016-12-16)
Background: Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of mortality in the United States which has arose from numerous contributing factors including the westernized diet and its shift toward more fatty and carbohydrate ...
LEADING A MORE EFFECTIVE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY: UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING THE COGNITIVE CHALLENGES OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION IN LETHAL ENVIRONMENTS
(2016-12-07)
The purpose of this research was to gain a better understanding of how specific aspects of cognitive performance are influenced by operating in lethal environments with the aim of incorporating any helpful insights into ...
The Legibility of Empire in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
(2016)
In this dissertation, “The Legibility of Empire in Nineteenth-Century American Literature,” I examine how American authors used their literary works to comment on – and, at times, challenge – the way legibility is mobilized ...
Oral Memoirs of Donald Halverstadt
(2016-08-22)
An oral history interview with Donald Halverstadt, MD, former provost at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
Petrographic Quartzite Source Discrimination in the Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado: Implications for the Archaeological Study of Prehistoric Hunter-Gathers
(2016-05-14)
Recently (Pitblado et al. 2008, 2013), an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geologists collaborated to develop a protocol for sourcing quartzite in the Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado where archaeological assemblages ...
SATELLITE-BASED CHARACTERIZATION OF CROP TYPE AND PRODUCTIVITY OF AGROECOSYSTEMS: CASE STUDIES IN NORTHEAST CHINA, SOUTHERN AFRICA, AND CONTERMINOUS USA
(2016-05-13)
Agroecosystem, or agricultural ecosystems, is the important anthropogenic ecosystem to meet the human demand for food, fiber, and feed, and it covers approximately 40-50% of the earth’s land surface. Accurate estimates of ...
Modeling Adsorption in Shale
(2016-12-16)
The existing conventional methods to characterize reservoir storage properties face challenges in shale formations due to their fine grained texture, low porosity, and low permeability. An integrated analysis of standard ...
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 ...