Browsing OSU - Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Accelerating convergence of leapfrogging optimization - Applications to nonlinear process modeling and nonlinear model predictive control
(2014-07)Conventionally used optimization methods in chemical engineering applications such as linear programming (LP), Levenberg-Marquardt and sequential quadratic programming (SQP) handle nonlinear objective function (OF) surfaces ... -
Acceleration Algorithms for Process Design Simulations
(Oklahoma State University, 1986-12-01)Direct Substitution Methods for convergence in simulation software are often slow and time consuming. Convergence can be speeded up using an acceleration algorithm. Three acceleration algorithms were tested on MAXISIM, a ... -
Acceptability of best practice school lunches by high school-aged participants in an offer setting: A randomized crossover trial
(2020-12)BACKGROUND: A barrier to improving school lunch dietary quality (DQ) is perceived low acceptability, as participation, selection, and plate waste, in school settings. The purpose of this study was to investigate differences ... -
Acceptability of Four Edible Varieties of Guar-cyamposis Tetragonoloba (L.) Taub--by a Taste Panel in Relation to Maturity,Methods of Preparation, and Protein Content
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Acceptance of Easy-Care Dresses and Cleaning Methods Used by Elderly Women
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Access Control and Security of Datasets by Usage Tracking Using Block Chain Technology
(2017-12-01)The thesis proposes a novel way to solve the threat of exposure of sensitive data from large datasets. Data is captured by organizations and converted into datasets. Two or more datasets may be combined to fetch critical ... -
Access to an outdoor classroom and changes in classroom environment: Elementary school teachers' perspectives
(2015-05)The current climate of education is focused on student outcomes. Outdoor and Environmental Education have been shown to positively impact academic achievement, classroom environment and culture, as well as increased ... -
Access Tube Installation for Study of Subgrade Moisture Variation
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Access, discourse, and cultural landscape change: The case of national park communities along the Crater Lake Highway in Jackson County, Oregon
(2010-07)Scope and Method of Study: This dissertation examines changes in the cultural landscape along the Crater Lake Highway in southern Oregon and relates those changes to local discourse of four principal development themes. ... -
Accomplishment as influenced by different family social backgrounds of vocational agriculture students of Mae Joh College of Agriculture
(1962-08)Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this study was to compare the accomplishments of farm boys and non-farm boys in; classroom education -- academic and agricultural subjects, supervised farm training, behavior and ... -
Accounting for attention changes in discrete choice experiments and modeling adverse selection in the cattle procurement market
(2021-07)This first paper conducts a discrete choice experiment to estimate turfgrass producers' willingness to accept (WTA) values using different logit models and specifications to capture respondents' attention. We first estimate ... -
Accounting for the Supply and Demand of Golf in Kansas and Oklahoma
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Accounting quality and international accounting convergence
(2007-12)Scope and Method of Study: This study empirically examined the functional relationship between financial reporting quality and accounting convergence. The first phase of the examination involved identifying and measuring ... -
Acculturation of the Choctaw and Comanche Indians a Quantitative Study of the Family, 1900
(Oklahoma State University, 1982-07-01)The history of the United States, indeed all of the Americas, owes much of its uniqueness to the relationships that emerged where diverse races and cultures met and mixed. Particularly, as a consequence of miscegenation, ...