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ENERGY DISSIPATION IN TWELVE-FOOT BROKEN-BACK CULVERTS USING LABORATORY MODELS (FHWA-OK-13-07)
(2013-9)
This report represents Phase IV of broken-back culverts with a drop of 12 feet. The first phase of this research was performed with a drop of 24 feet, the second phase of this research was carried with for a drop of 6 feet, ...
A Phenomenological Exploration of Self-Directed Learning Among Successful Minority Entrepreneurs
(2013)
This transcendental, phenomenological study explored the Self-directed learning (SDL) of 10 successful minority entrepreneurs. Two SDL theories serve as lenses for the study, Spear and Mocker's (1984) Organizing Circumstance ...
INTEGRATED GEOPHYSICAL STUDIES OF THE FORT WORTH BASIN (TEXAS), HARNEY BASIN (OREGON), AND SNAKE RIVER PLAIN (IDAHO)
(2013)
Geophysical methods such as seismic, gravity, magnetics, electric, and electromagnetics are capable of identifying subsurface features but each has a different spatial resolution. Although, each of these methods are ...
Strategies to Reduce the Foreign Body Response to Cortical Neural Interfaces
(2013-12)
Cortical neural interfaces offer unique capabilities to researchers and physicians, opening doors to superior understanding and treatment of a host of processes and diseases in the central nervous system. One of modern ...
A Defense of Nonreductive Mental Causation
(2013)
Mental causation is a problem and not just a problem for the nonphysicalist. One of the many lessons learned from Jaegwon Kim's writings in the philosophy of mind is that mental causation is a problem for the nonreductive ...
A Risk And Trust Security Framework For The Pervasive Mobile Environment
(2013)
A pervasive mobile computing environment is typically composed of multiple fixed and mobile entities that interact autonomously with each other with very little central control. Many of these interactions may occur between ...
Trauma and Resistance in the Short Story Corpus of Ana Maria Matute 1953-1962
(2013)
From 1953 to 1962 Ana María Matute Ausejo (b. 1926) published ten short story collections of and two additioinal stories.
Selected Solo Marimba Music of Raymond Helble: A Guide for Teaching and Performance
(2013-12-13)
This document examines the pedagogical and historical importance of Raymond Helble’s solo marimba music. Selected titles include The Well-Tempered Marimbist Books One and Two (1983), Preludes for Marimba Nos. 1-3 (1971), ...
Three Essays in Corporate Finance: Examining the Influence of Government Ownership and Evaluating Crude Oil Arbitrage
(2013)
The aim of this dissertation is twofold: first, to evaluate how governments influence firms in which they invest (chapters one and two), and second, to examine arbitrage in the crude oil market by investigating the ...