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Economics and human dimension of active management of forest-grassland ecotone in south-central U.S.A. under changing climate
(2022-07)
The south-central ecotone of the USA, characterized by a mix of forest, savanna, and grasslands, previously maintained by fire, is changing towards closed-canopy forest due to exclusion of fire. The management is complicated ...
Envisioning an entrepreneurial ecosystem as part of the sustainable development of a rural community: Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma.
(2022-12)
The dissertation topic was partly inspired by my interest in sustainable community development, which requires social, economic and environmental change to transform underdeveloped rural communities. The emergent concept ...
Pedagogy of nature: Teachers' reflections on meanings made with/in outdoor spaces
(2021-12)
The purpose of this narrative inquiry study was to 'come alongside' women educators who value and therefore spend extended periods of time outdoors to consider how they story those experiences and events, and, in doing so, ...
Immune signaling pathways and digestion-related proteins in the Manduca sexta larvae
(2022-07)
M. sexta has been used as a biochemistry model to study insect immunity. While it is unclear how immune genes are specifically regulated by Toll or Imd pathway. We produced the recombinant Spätzle-1 and -2 precursors, ...
Case study of a Tulsa, Oklahoma school name change from Confederate to Indigenous roots: Supporters' meaning-making
(2023-05)
This qualitative case study focuses on renaming an elementary school in Tulsa, Oklahoma from a Confederate namesake (Robert E. Lee Elementary) to a name reflecting Indigenous roots of the Muskogee Creek Nation (Council ...
Land-use/land-cover change and vulnerability to landslide disasters in Kurseong (Darjeeling Himalayas), India
(2021-05)
This three-article dissertation (TAD) examines the drivers and impacts of Land-use/land-cover Change (LULCC) on the social-ecological system (SES) in a Himalayan region, prone to landslide disasters. The study region is ...
Advancements in collection and analysis of fire debris-improved field collection kits with fast gas chromatography
(2023-05)
Gas chromatography with mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is the primary tool used in fire debris analysis by forensic scientists. Improving the efficiency of this analysis through fast GC was the first aim of this work, and it ...
On distributed optimization problems with variational inequality constraints: Algorithms, complexity analysis, and applications
(2021-09)
Traditionally, constrained optimization models include constraints in the form of inequalities and equations. In this dissertation, we consider a unifying class of optimization problems with variational inequality (VI) ...
Reliability and sensitivity analysis of civil and marine structures using machine-learning-assisted simulation
(2022-12)
Civil and marine structures are subjected to various deterioration mechanisms due to aggressive environmental effects or mechanical loads. In order to maintain an acceptable performance level of these structures, previous ...
Space, representation, and realism in contemporary European art cinema
(2021-05)
This dissertation analyzes a select group of contemporary films that can generally be categorized as European art cinema by focusing on how space, representation, and realism operate within them. The study concentrates on ...