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SURVEY OF CATALYST AND REDUCTANT EFFECTS ON OXORHENIUM CATALYZED DEOXYDEHYDRATION OF GLYCOLS
(2015-02-06)
Sustainable and renewable carbon sources are of great interest for long term succession of humankind. The sugars and polyols derived from cellulosic biomass offer such a sustainable feedstock considering cellulosic biomass ...
CONSEQUENCES OF HABITAT TRANSITIONS ON LOCOMOTIVE TRAIT DIVERSIFICATION AT THE MICRO- AND MACRO-EVOLUTIONARY SCALES
(2015-05-08)
Contemporarily evolving systems provide a unique opportunity to characterize the direction, pattern, and rates of phenotypic change among multiple species. The damming of streams to create reservoirs results in a change ...
Computational Electromagnetics Applied to Scattering Observed by Polarimetric Weather Radar
(2015-12-18)
The primary topics of this dissertation are issues existing in the current ensemble scattering procedures. These procedures are failing to quantitatively reproduce polarimetric signatures from resolution volumes filled ...
The Social Network?: The Use and Efficacy of Facebook and Twitter for Nonprofit Reach and User Engagement
(2015-05)
The political application of social media, particularly social networking sites, has drawn a lot of recent popular and scholarly attention. While scholars have focused on the applications of these media to campaigns, less ...
Photoassociation and Rovibrational Cooling of Sodium Cesium Using Chirped Laser Pulses and Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage
(2015-04)
This dissertation presents the study of how two laser pulses can bind sodium and cesium atoms at ultracold temperature ($T=200\mu K$) into an ultracold, polar, diatomic molecule with a definite quantum state.
A single-channel ...
FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT TO OBTAIN THIN FILM COATINGS ON SOLID SURFACES USING ADMICELLAR POLYMERIZATION
(2015-05-08)
Hydrophobic and hydrophilic properties are imparted on solid surfaces to enhance the properties of surfaces. From over a decade several methods have been employed to impart thin film coatings onto surfaces. Apart from ...
Nervous London: Urban Sensibility in the Romantic Period
(2015-08-14)
Nervous London: Urban Sensibility in the Romantic Period traces a continued cultural and scientific interest in sensibility and how it shifted and developed in the Romantic period. This project explores representations of ...
Facilitative Influences on Organizational Planning
(2015-07-13)
Planning is one of the most important aspects of performance in organizations. The present study investigates a number of facilitative influences on organizational planning, including the threat of external pressure in the ...
Purism, Prescriptivism, and Privilege: Choctaw Language Ideologies and Their Impact on Teaching and Learning
(2015-12)
Oklahoma Choctaw, a Muskogean language originally spoken in the American southeast, is currently the focus of language revitalization efforts by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. The School of Choctaw Language, which has ...
Rock friction and dynamic faulting at the micro- to nano-scales
(2015-05-08)
An earthquake occurs when the shear resistance of a crustal fault drops from static friction to dynamic friction during slip. Understanding fault weakening mechanisms is essential for the understanding of earthquake ...