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Influence of Exterior Design Attributes on Consumer Preference for Electric Vehicles
(2019-07)
What is the relationship between a product's design and acceptance of the product? We examine consumer preferences relative to the fast changing automotive industry to understand how the various physical design elements ...
Vibrational Spectroscopy and Chemometrics Applied to the Forensic Analysis of Automotive Paints and Edible Oils
(2019-07)
Profiling of complex materials (e.g., automotive paint and cooking oil) with infrared and Raman spectroscopy is an active area of research with a large and growing literature. The object of profile analysis is to correlate ...
Beneficial Use of Produced Water and Carbon Dioxide in Depleted Oil Reservoirs: In-Situ Microbial Conversion of Crude Oil to Methane
(2019-05-01)
Produced water from oil and gas reservoirs contains high levels of organic chemicals and heavy metals whose concentrations, in many cases, exceeds USA drinking water standards. To prevent the contamination of underground ...
Meta-Analysis of Geospatial Estimates in the Case of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370
(2019-05-01)
This study performs a meta-analysis of 38 studies providing geospatial estimates for the final location of MH370, investigates the spatial characteristics of antennas as a potential source of additional useful spatial ...
Bronsted Acid Site Heterogeneity in Zeolite HZSM-5 and Synergistic Effects with Water in Hydrocarbon Reactions
(2019-05-01)
Zeolite catalysts are solid Bronsted acids whose reactivity is typically associated with the number of protons at crystalline framework bridging acid sites (BAS's) and the bonding environments around them. Direct observation ...
Privacy Analysis of Online and Offline Systems
(2019-07)
How to protect people's privacy when our life are banded together with smart devices online and offline? For offline systems like smartphones, we often have a passcode to prevent others accessing to our personal data. ...
Solution-based synthetic strategies, characterizations, and applications of nanoparticles
(2019-05)
Nanomaterials have attracted great attention in the past decades due to their unique properties. Up to the present time, various nanoparticles with tunable size and shape have been produced using solution-based synthetic ...
Resilience of Sheep to Limited Water Availability
(2019-05-01)
In 2 experiments, the objective was to establish performance, physiological, and nutritional assessments of hair sheep resilience to drinking water shortage. A total of 130 Dorper, Katahdin, and St. Croix female sheep with ...
Functional characterization of petiolule-like pulvinus (PLP) gene in abscission zone development in Medicago truncatula and its application on alfalfa improvement
(2019-12)
Organ abscission plays an important role in plant development. To date, little is known about genes involved in leaf abscission zone differentiation. Leaf loss during the haymaking process in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) ...
Factors Affecting Bird-Window Collisions in a Small Urban Area: Stillwater, Oklahoma
(2019-05-01)
This dissertation consists of four concurrent studies of bird-building collisions, which primarily occur at glass surfaces (e.g., windows) and are a major source of direct anthropogenic mortality for birds globally. Although ...