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Oil Retention and Its Effects on Pressure Drop and Heat Transfer in Microchannel Evaporators of Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Systems
(2015-12-01)
In Air-conditioning and Refrigeration systems, a small portion of the compressor oil circulates with the refrigerant through the cycle components. The oil circulating with the refrigerant flow retains in heat exchangers ...
Can Performance Predictions Improve Prospective Memory and Does Type of Prediction Matter?
(2015-12-01)
The purpose of the current study was to investigate the extent to which memory beliefs (as indexed by performance predictions) affected prospective memory (PM) performance on tasks that had different retrieval processing ...
Finding Value in Grape Pomace
(Oklahoma State University, 2015-05-01)
The production of grapes is increasing all around the world. A 7% annual increase in wine grape production, and the waste products associated with wine processing, occurred in 2013 in the US. Pomace is a predominant waste ...
Asssessment of Sod Handling Quality and Tensile Strength of Thirty-nine Turf Bermudagrasses
(2015-12-01)
Turfgrass sod is a pad of grass with its intermingled shoots, rhizomes and roots as well as adhering soil. To be successfully used as a sod crop, a turfgrass must have a suitable production cycle and sod handling/transport ...
Monitoring Eastern Oklahoma Lake Water Quality Using Landsat
(2015-05-01)
The monitoring of public waters for recreational, industrial, agricultural, and drinking purposes is a difficult task assigned to many state water agencies. The Oklahoma Water Resources Board (OWRB) is only physically ...
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 ...
Monumental Discourse: The Narratives on Display at Stone Mountain Park, Georgia
(2015-12-01)
While the desire to memorialize the past is quite common, the motivations behind many memorials are not necessarily self-evident. Often � whether intentional or not � the memorialization of the past is a platform for the ...
In-vivo Per-cutaneous Single Fiber Reflectance Spectroscopy of Hepatic Steatosis in a Rat Model: Quantitative Assessment with Respect to Histopathology
(2015-05-01)
The assessment of hepatic steatosis has implications on liver transplantation.Reflectance spectroscopy using single fiber is a minimally-invasive technique applied to probing of biological tissues for extracting tissue ...
Strange Fruit on the Southern Plains: Racial Violence, Lynching, and African Americans in Oklahoma, 1830-1930
(Oklahoma State University, 2015-05-01)
To varying degrees, African-descended people in Oklahoma encountered racial violence in every era of history between 1830 and 1930. The first African-descended people to set foot in Oklahoma were those slaves who endured ...
Shear Wall Sill Plate Behavior in Wood Frames
(2015-07-01)
In the Midwest region of United States of America tornados are considered to be the most brutal form of natural disaster for the building houses where many of these houses are built out of wood. Newcastle-Moore tornado ...