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INVESTIGATION OF THE HYDROLOGY, FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY, AND SEDIMENT TRANSPORT IN THE LAKE THUNDERBIRD WATERSHED IN CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
(2015-05-08)
As human population continues to rise, an ever increasing burden is being placed on earth’s water resources. Between 1950 and 2010, the world’s population increased from 2.6 billion to almost 7 billion, and the population ...
THE ART OF MELD: PITCH ORGANIZATION AND MOTIVIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN JOAN TOWER’S MUSIC FOR CLARINET
(2015-12)
Joan Tower is an award-winning American composer, best known for her orchestral and chamber music. Her music is widely performed and is well liked by performers and audiences alike. Her three solo works for clarinet—Wings ...
Post-Industrial Gatekeeping: A Rhetorical History of Disciplinary Composition
(2015-05)
This dissertation argues that composition’s ascendance to academic legitimacy in the mid-to-late twentieth century did not emerge as a challenge to FYC’s traditional gatekeeping function but rather represents the replacement ...
Feshbach Optimized Photoassociation of Rubidium Dimers
(2015-05)
We report the observation of three different Feshbach optimized photoassociation
resonances. The observations are in agreement with theoretical predictions
and prior experimental results except for the width of the ...
A Heuristic Simulation and Optimization Algorithm for Large Scale Natural Gas Storage Valuation under Uncertainty
(2015-04-23)
Natural gas storage valuation is an optimal scheduling of natural gas storage facilities. It is a complex predictive decision making research problem since it involves the financial decisions and the physical storage ...
Factors Influencing Successful Completion of a College Degree by Hispanic Female Educators
(2015)
Despite educational attainment gains over the years, Hispanics lag behind their White and Black peers in achieving a college degree. For 2013, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reported only 16 percent ...
BEETHOVEN’S PIANO SONATA, OP. 53 “WALDSTEIN”: A STUDY OF FINGERINGS IN SELECTED EDITIONS
(2015-12-18)
This study collates and compares fingerings in selected significant editions of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C Major, Op. 53. These selected editions span from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first and include those ...
Betty Johnson, Midwest Pioneer of the Bassoon: Her Life and Legacy
(2015)
Betty Johnson’s career in bassoon performance and education spanned six decades. She was an early pioneer and prominent teacher of the bassoon in the Midwest. She began her tenure as a charter member of the Oklahoma Symphony ...
The Effects of Servant Leadership on the Socio-moral Climate of Catholic Parishes and the Spiritual Well-being of Followers
(2015-08-14)
This study investigated the effects of followers’ perceived servant leadership orientation of their leaders on the socio-moral climate of organizations and the spiritual well-being of followers in a non-profit/religious ...
Experimental and Numerical Studies on the Structural Dynamics of Flapping Beams
(2015-05)
The nonlinear structural dynamics of slender cantilever beams in flapping motion is studied through experiments, numerical simulations, and perturbation analyses.
A flapping mechanism which imparts a periodic flapping ...