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Precipitation and Streamflow Responses to Climate Variability in the Arkansas and Red River Basins
(2016-12-01)
The Arkansas-Red River Basin (ARRB) features a steep east-west precipitation gradient ranging from 380 to 1420 mm. The objective of this study is to understand how precipitation (P) in different parts of the ARRB basin is ...
Privacy Preservation and Service Provision in Geo-spatial-temporal Systems
(2016-12-01)
The main aim of Location Based Services (LBS) is to ensure user privacy whileproviding the best LBS for users. There are very few works focusing on the tradeoffbetween location privacy preservation and location query ...
Essays on mispricing of equity securities
(2016-07)
Mispricing of equity securities is an area of research with many implications for academicians, individual investors, money managers, and executives. The first essay in this dissertation explicitly studies the consistency ...
Environmental (natural and anthropogenic) effects on host-parasite (snail-trematode) interactions
(2016-05)
This dissertation explored environmental effects on host-parasite interactions. Chapter 2 was published in Ecotoxicology and assessed the effects of the herbicide atrazine on freshwater snails. The results indicated that ...
Remote Sensing Analysis and Implications for Groundwater Resources in the Kharga Basin, Egypt
(2016-05-01)
Identifying new groundwater resources in Africa is important because climate change may cause the Nile recharge to decrease by the end of the century, affecting water stability in the eleven countries that rely on this ...
First-language Cherokee speakers' perceptions of school experiences
(2016-12)
In this dissertation I examine the perceptions of the experiences that first-language Cherokee speakers had of their school experiences, and of the higher education or career choices that they made beyond high school, in ...
Effect of Shallow-water Habitat Quantity on Young-of-year Shovelnose Sturgeon Prey Use and Condition along a Longitudinal Gradient
(2016-12-01)
The lower Missouri River has been highly modified and it is hypothesized that the loss of shallow-water habitat (SWH) has decreased prey availability, negatively affecting young-of-year (YOY) sturgeon. Young-of-year sturgeon ...
Evaluating the Impact of Variable Planting Dates and the Use of Plant Growth Regulators on Fall Stand Establishment, Winter Hardiness, and Yield of Winter Canola in Oklahoma
(2016-07-01)
This thesis contains two research papers about winter canola.
Analysis of Bone Cutting Mechanics in Orthopedic Surgery
(2016-07-01)
Bone cutting has been widely used in orthopedic surgery for repairing bone fractures and attaching implantable prosthetics. Temperature rise in the cutting process can cause necrosis when it is beyond a threshold value, ...
Elytron Branding and Predicted Occurrence Modeling of American Burying Beetle in the Northern Plains Ecoregions of Nebraska and South Dakota
(2016-05-01)
Two experiments were initiated in Perkins, Oklahoma to evaluate and compare control methods of 22 turf herbicide products for southern sandbur (Cenchrus echinatus L.). Bermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.] and sandbur ...