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Development, Characterization, and Optimization of a Multi-Chamber, Single-Use Bioreactor
(2019-05-01)
Stirred-tank single-use bioreactors have proven their capability to successfully replace their stainless-steel counterparts in the biopharmaceutical industry. To date, however, only a five-fold volume expansion is achievable ...
Three Essays on U.S. Household Food and Diet Preferences
(2019-05-01)
This dissertation focuses on U.S. household food and diet preferences. The first study seeks to determine the effect of rising interest in gluten-free food(s) on retail demand for U.S. foods and ultimately on producer and ...
Remembering Kin: Constructing Creek Tribal Sites of Memory
(2019-05-01)
This dissertation is a tribally-specific study of Creek texts, Alexander Posey's The Fus Fixico Letters, Joy Harjo's memoir Crazy Brave and Sterlin Harjo's documentary This May Be the Last Time, that focuses on manifestations ...
Travel Mode Selection When Autonomous Transportation Attributes Are Included as Criteria
(2019-05-01)
Technology is rapidly changing the options available for travelers and transportation provider's business models. Billions of dollars have been investing in autonomous automobiles, but deployment timelines vary widely. ...
Twisters in Two Cities: Structural Ritualization Theory and Disasters
(2019-05-01)
The sociological study of disaster has increased in methodological and conceptual complexity since its inception, but despite this progress there persists a need for further theoretical development in order to advance ...
Point efficiency of distillation sieve trays at elevated liquid viscosities
(2019-12)
Liquid viscosity is considered to be a major factor that influences distillation efficiency through its contribution to the liquid-phase mass transfer resistance. Nearly all of the distillation efficiency correlations in ...
Enhanced Vertical Ground Heat Exchanger Model for Whole Building Energy Simulation
(2019-07)
The U.S. Energy Information Agency estimates that buildings consume more than 40% of all energy used in the United States. This includes considering energy used for transportation and heavy industry. As a result, many ...
Assessment and Development of Remotely Sensed Evapotranspiration Modeling Approaches
(2019-05-01)
Remote sensing has been a promising approach to extracting distributed evapotranspiration (ET) information at varying spatial and temporal scales. Performances of several vegetation index (VI) based and remotely sensed ...
Opportunity Creation: The Effects of Affective Events and Information Processing (Systematic, Heuristic) on Opportunity Creation Idea Quantity and Quality
(2019-07)
Utilizing a sample of 206 entrepreneurs, this study examines opportunity creation idea quantity and quality for dispositionally positive or negative entrepreneurs following the experience of a positive or negative affective ...
Collaborating Accountably: Interpersonal Antiracist Activism as a Site for Feminist Invitational Rhetoric and Writing Center Pedagogy
(2019-05-01)
This dissertation applies participatory action research and feminist ethnographic methods to study The Conversation Workshops, which teaches strategies for interpersonal antiracist activism using concepts from invitational ...