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Model of the food hygiene transfer process
(2013-12)
Analyses of food-borne disease notification throughout the world have confirmed that there is a link between outbreaks and unsafe food handling practices in the foodservice industry. For many years industry has relied on ...
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 ...
Design of a High Gravity Distillation Unit for On-farm Ethanol Dewatering
(Oklahoma State University, 2010-12-01)
High gravity (Higee) distillation refers to separation of components in a rotating packed bed type contacting device. Rotating packed beds utilize centrifugal force to create artificial gravity up to 200 times greater in ...
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 ...
Design and Development of a Severe Storm Research UAS
(2015-05-01)
A small unmanned aircraft system (SUAS) was designed and developed to be utilized for meteorological data collection, specifically information useful for severe storm and tornado prediction. The system will operate prior ...
Disaster Mitigation Programs in Tulsa, Oklahoma: An Examination of Organizational Survival
(Oklahoma State University, 2010-07-01)
This study uses qualitative analysis to examine how Tulsa Project Impact, a formalized emergent citizen group, survived a major external environmental change. Tulsa Project Impact was formed from FEMA Project Impact, a ...
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 ...
Institutional capabilities and entrepreneurial advantage: Bridging the gap between regulatory management and opportunity
(2014-07)
Firms are increasingly using tactics to manipulate their regulatory constraints, while at the same time regulatory environments are becoming increasingly complex and dynamic. Although scholars have described many of the ...