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The Ontological Miseducation and Ontological Reeducation of African Americans: Race, Resistance and Transformation
(2017-12-16)
Carter G. Woodson’s insight that “If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action” inspired this dissertation, which critically studies theories of miseducation by Woodson (1933), Jane Roland ...
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN FRESHWATER MUSSELS, MERCURY CONTAMINATION, AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE IN FRESHWATER SYSTEMS
(2017)
Humans are impacting the environment at an unprecedented scale, with anthropogenic activities altering environmental processes and cycles planet-wide. Centuries of gold mining and coal burning has more than tripled the ...
Infrastructure Network Resilience and Economic Impacts: Applications in Multi-Modal Freight Transportation
(2017-08-01)
The US has defined a number of critical infrastructures, the disruption of which “would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those ...
CHARACTERIZATION OF SURFACTANTS AND TRACER PROPERTIES FOR POTENTIAL EOR APPLICATIONS
(2017)
There are some challenges in chemical flooding, such as, gas finger problem usually occurred in field tests, potential scale problems of chemical slug caused by precipitation due to incompatibility between chemical solution ...
Discovery of the molecular interactions mediating malaria transmission in the mosquito midgut
(2017)
Malaria is a worldwide health problem that affects two thirds of the world population and kills approximately one million people annually. Infecting Anopheline mosquitoes is the essential step for malaria transmission. ...
Convergence Rates for Stationary Distributions of Semistochastic Processes
(2017-05)
The primary objects of study in this dissertation are semistochastic processes. The types of semistochastic processes we consider are continuous-time and continuous-state processes consisting of intervals of deterministic ...
REPORTING THE CLIMATE CRISIS: EXPLORING ANTHROPOMORPHIC LANGUAGE AND ALTERNATIVE STORY FORMATS AS JOURNALISTIC MECHANISMS TO COMBAT OBSTACLES ASSOCIATED WITH CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATION
(2017)
Reporting on climate change has been a special challenge for journalists, but new approaches to storytelling may help curb some of the inherent confounds found in environmental discourse. Through experimental analysis, ...
Wnt Signaling Inhibitor Characteristics According to Bone Status, Physical Activity Levels, and Muscle Function in Young and Middle-aged Premenopausal Women
(2017-05-12)
Introduction: Bone metabolism is regulated by the Wnt signaling pathway and is considered to be crucial for skeletal development. There are two glycoproteins that inhibit Wnt function and bone metabolism: sclerostin and ...
Theory and observations of bores in the nocturnal environment of the Great Plains
(2017-08-03)
Accurate representation of bores in forecast models is a challenge. This challenge is
of considerable interest to both the operational and the research communities because
bores are capable of producing vertical displacements ...
ECOSYSTEM RESPONSES TO CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES: DROUGHT ASSESSMENT (REMOTE SENSING), FIELD MEASUREMENTS (EDDY COVARIANCE) AND MODELING (DNDC)
(2017-12-15)
Climate variability and management practices in isolation or in combination influence the properties of ecosystems and the flows of energy and materials through them. The goal of this dissertation is to better understand ...