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Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover on Remote Sensing Analyses of Thunderstorms and Their Attendant Hazards
(2017-05-12)
Due to their hazardous nature, most thunderstorm observations today come from remote sensing platforms such as radar, satellite, and lightning detection sensors. Advancements in these sensor networks provide the ability ...
Analysis of Faulting and Earthquake Processes: from Laboratory Experiments to Crustal-Scale Investigations
(2017-12)
This dissertation encompasses a wide range of scale that investigates the tectonic processes in the crust with respect to faulting and earthquakes. of tectonic and earthquake processes in the crust. I present in four ...
UNDERSTANDING A NONPROFIT FORM OF ORCHESTRAL MUSIC EDUCATION THROUGH THE ECOLOGICAL POLITICAL METAPHOR: THE CASE OF EL SISTEMA OKLAHOMA
(2017-05)
This is an educational studies dissertation substantiated in an emergent, empirical case. Over the past few decades, the fine arts, including music education, have increasingly been de-emphasized in PK-12 school environments. ...
Flavor Changing Neutral Currents in a General Two Higgs Doublet Model: Using an Extended Sector to Search for New Physics
(2017-08)
In this dissertation I present studies of flavor-changing neutral Higgs interactions
in a general Two Higgs Doublet Model. I focus on the analytic calculation of
φ → tc and φ → τ μ where φ = h0 , H0 , A0 . In the case ...
Advanced Aviation Weather Radar Data Processing and Real-Time Implementations
(2017-12)
The objectives of this dissertation work are developing an enhanced intelligent radar signal and data processing framework for aviation hazard detection, classification and monitoring, and real-time implementation on massive ...
MOISTURE SOURCES FOR FLASH FLOODS IN THE UNITED STATES
(2017-12)
This dissertation uses backward trajectories derived from North American Regional Reanalysis data for 19,253 flash flood reports published by the National Weather Service to assess the nonlocal contribution of the land ...
DEVELOPING ELECTROOSMOTIC-PUMP-BASED MINIATURIZED DEVICES: TOWARD A LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY CARTRIDGE COUPLED WITH MASS SPECTROMETER AND A SUB-PICOLITER PIPETTOR FOR SINGLE CELL SURGERY
(2017-06)
There has been increasing interest on miniaturizing high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), since it can reduce the costs of instrument manufacturing and perform onsite analysis. The electroosmotic pump (EOP) is one ...
Hidden tensions: An exploration of multiple company employees' social identities in the U.S. and China
(2017-08-01)
This dissertation examined Chinese and U.S. organizational members’ multiple social identities and how they engaged in identity work to develop, organize, revise, and manage identity tensions that emerge from various ...
Pivotal Moment: Personal Histories of First-Year Composition
(2017-05-12)
This project links historical close readings of pivotal figures in the creation of first-year composition (FYC) labor practices to contemporary debates about how to best advocate for and reform contemporary labor conditions, ...
English Pastoralism in Ralph Vaughan Williams' Concerto for Oboe and Strings
(2017-05-12)
Few would dispute that the Ralph Vaughan Williams Concerto for Oboe and Strings (1944) belongs to the pastoral expressive genre. Fewer, however, are able to explain, in great detail, which characteristics make it pastoral. ...