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Constraints on Development of Anoxia Through Geochemical Facies Mapping of Devonian Black Shales in the Midcontinent
(Oklahoma State University, 2012-05-01)
The Woodford Shale of the US southern Midcontinent is an Upper Devonian/Lower Mississippian black shale sequence that includes the Frasnian-Famennian boundary. Black shales are commonly enriched in transition metals. While ...
Automatic digital holographic analysis of near-field aerated liquid jets in crossflow
(2012-05)
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Developing a Method to Screen Potential Targets for Artificial RNAi in Aphids
(Oklahoma State University, 2012-07-01)
Aphids are economically important pest that have developed resistance to many known insecticides. In addition to the direct damage caused by aphid herbivory, aphids are vectors for pathogenic viruses. The goal of this study ...
Corn Sensor Development for By-plant Management
(Oklahoma State University, 2012-07-01)
Corn grain yield prediction and by-plant nutrient management have become a major research topic. This research was conducted to develop a sensor to improve by-plant management by detecting plant location and measuring corn ...
Medicine and Morality: the Use of Rhetoric in Victorian Marriage and Child Rearing Manuals
(Oklahoma State University, 2012-07-01)
During the Victorian era, many changes occurred due to industrialization and political upheaval. At a time when the young were moving away from parental supervision to large cities for employment opportunities, the Victorians ...
Influence of the Deeper Scaffolding Framework on Problem-solving Performance and Transfer of Knowledge
(Oklahoma State University, 2012-07-01)
One of major goals of education is to prepare effective and efficient problem solvers. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of the DEEPER framework of scaffolding problem solving on three important variables: ...
Effect of Kolb's experiential learning model on successful secondary student intelligence and student motivation
(2012-12)
Experiential learning, as defined by Kolb (1984), is an important pedagogical approach used in secondary agricultural education. Though anecdotal evidence supports the use of experiential learning, a paucity of empirical ...
US micropolitan area economies in the 1990's
(2012-07)
Scope and Method of the Study: This paper uses a hedonic growth model developed by Glaeser and Tobio (2008) and general dominance analysis to examine the forces contributing to the growth of micropolitan areas during the ...
Prediction of Likelihood of Failure of Underground Linear Assets Using Survival Analysis
(Oklahoma State University, 2012-12-01)
Water and sewer pipe assets are challenging to manage because they are buried in the ground. The scope of this paper was to determine the likelihood of failure (LoF) of water and sewer pipes, which was mainly their physical ...
Relationship between teacher orientation and consultation terminology, intervention acceptability, evaluation of effectiveness, and willingness to implement
(2012-07)
Scope and Method of Study: The current study was designed to expand on previous research examining the effect of terminology on ratings of intervention acceptability and to investigate the effects of terminology on judgments ...