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Only the Young: The Rhetoric of Youth-Led Social Movements In the 21st Century
(2024-05-10)
In this dissertation, I examine several examples of contemporary youth-led protest in conjunction with some of the specific challenges of organizing in the present day. In each chapter, I pair one circumstance that makes ...
AUTHORIAL CUSTODY AND STORY STEWARDSHIP: CENTERING RELATIONALITY AS AN INDIGENOUS APPROACH TO TEXTS
(2024-05-10)
This dissertation looks to position authorial custody and story stewardship as useful tools for author, audience, and critic. As a critical creative methodology, it can be used to identify custodial markers indicating the ...
WHEN TO FOLLOW, WHEN TO BREAK, WHO TO BLAME: CITIZEN PERCEPTIONS OF STREET-LEVEL SERVICE INTERACTIONS
(2024-05-10)
In this dissertation, I combine insights from public administration with those of political science, public policy, and social psychology to better understand how citizens think about and understand their governments. In ...
MULTI-CONTRAST OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY FOR VARIOUS BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS
(2024-05-10)
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a label-free optical imaging technique that provides noninvasive visualization of biological tissue microstructures with micrometer-scale resolution and millimeter-scale penetration ...
A Catalog of Early Cycladic Zoomorphic Objects: Symbolism and Function
(2024-05-11)
During the Early Cycladic period of the Aegean Bronze Age (ca. 3200-2000 BCE), the inhabitants of the Cycladic islands produced three-dimensional zoomorphic objects, many of which survive today. This study cataloged 128 ...
Blood and ink: A qualitative inquiry of teacher well-being in post-pandemic Oklahoma
(2024-05-10)
During the COVID-19 pandemic public schools were at the center of political debate related to educational content and curricula. Some conservative states moved to place tighter controls on schools in these dimensions with ...
EVALUATION OF MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM ACCURACY IN ENERGY EXPLORATION USING PHYSICS DERIVED SYNTHETIC MODELS.
(2024-05-10)
Oil and gas exploration and production struggles with meeting energy needs while minimizing environmental impact. Amidst artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to expedite energy exploration and minimize ...
Signal Processing Techniques for Spatial and Frequency-Varying Wave Propagation Through Multi-Layer Stack-Ups
(2024-08-01)
Radar is classically used over optical sensors to sense objects regardless of weather or daylight conditions. In this case, a waveform is transmitted through the air and reflects off the outside of an object back to the ...
Signal Processing Techniques for Radar Operation in Congested Spectrum
(2024-08-01)
The electromagnetic spectrum is a finite resource that has become increasingly congested as the use of wireless communications and RF applications have expanded. With increased congestion, dynamic spectrum sensing and ...
Naturalness and Novel Statistical Methods on the String Landscape
(2024-08)
In this work, we formalize the concept of naturalness in supersymmetric effective field theories, as well as introduce novel methods for performing statistical analyses in the string landscape. We revisit the various ...