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DEVELOPING AN ALGORITHM INTEGRATING VOICE AND IMAGING ANALYSIS TO RECOGNIZE FACIAL FEATURES AND DEFICIENCIES AFTER ORAL SURGERY
(2024-05-10)
According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), oral cancer is one of several major types of head and neck cancer (HNCs) and affects approximately 54,000 individuals in the United States each year. Recognized risk ...
Effects of Hydrology, Vegetation, and Aeration on Emerging Contaminant Removal from Secondarily Treated Wastewater Effluent in Treatment Wetland Mesocosms
(2024-05-10)
Indirect potable reuse is an expanding practice which returns portions of treated wastewater to municipal supplies. However, traditional wastewater treatment is not designed to remove the wide variety of “emerging contaminants” ...
Impacts of Extractive Activities on Drinking Water and Population Health
(2024-05-10)
Extractive activities such as coal mining and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) are common throughout the United States. Much research has found that extractive activities have negative impacts on both ecosystem health and ...
Design of Precast Post-tensioned Slabs using Lightweight Concrete for Residential Foundations
(2024-05-10)
The use of precast concrete in construction is highly favored due to its many benefits, including improved quality control, reduced construction time, increased durability, and sustainability. In Oklahoma, post-tensioned ...
A PALEOCLIMATE AND PALEOFIRE HISTORY FROM THE EARLY PLEISTOCENE OF UNAWEEP CANYON, NORTHWESTERN COLORADO
(2024-05)
Lacustrine systems capture high-resolution records of continental climate, including information on paleotemperatures, hydroclimate, and paleofire activity. An increasing number of studies have reported paleoclimate and ...
Enhanced Assessments of Tornado Locations and Damage Using Geospatial Technologies
(2024-05-10)
Tornado climatologies represent an important tool for understanding the genesis, behavior, and dissipation of tornados and tornadic storms. The current tornado record is imperfect, but nevertheless useful. I undertook a ...
Exploration of Factors Influencing the Teacher Self-Efficacy in Educators of Justice-Involved Juveniles in Special Settings: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed-Methods Study
(2024-05)
Juveniles involved with the justice system are a population of youth with extensive needs who are historically underserved. Legal mandates have attempted to ensure these students are receiving a quality education, but ...
Only the Young: The Rhetoric of Youth-Led Social Movements In the 21st Century
(2024-05-10)
In this dissertation, I examine several examples of contemporary youth-led protest in conjunction with some of the specific challenges of organizing in the present day. In each chapter, I pair one circumstance that makes ...
AUTHORIAL CUSTODY AND STORY STEWARDSHIP: CENTERING RELATIONALITY AS AN INDIGENOUS APPROACH TO TEXTS
(2024-05-10)
This dissertation looks to position authorial custody and story stewardship as useful tools for author, audience, and critic. As a critical creative methodology, it can be used to identify custodial markers indicating the ...
Examining Preservation of Pathological Lesions in Cremated Human Skeletal Remains from the Archaic Period Site of Phaleron, Greece
(2024-05-10)
This thesis explores preservation of pathological lesions in primary cremations from the Archaic Period (ca. 750-480 BCE), archaeological site of Phaleron, Greece. The main research questions include: 1) How can ...