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COMPOSING AGENCY: USING INQUIRY TO PROMOTE SOCIAL ACTION
(2017-08-01)
In Rhetoric/Composition studies, agency has been a highly contested concept, straightaway invoking the tension between two dominant perspectives. Agency is viewed as either an internal quality possessed by an individual ...
Opposition to Authoritarianism: Ideational and Material Resources in Russia and Ukraine
(2017-12)
Why do some opposition movements succeed in deposing authoritarian leaders in the former Soviet Republics, while some others fail? How do regime opponents challenge authoritarian discourses and practices? How do authoritarian ...
CORROSION BEHAVIOR OF TUBULARS IN SOUR GAS ENVIRONMENT
(2017)
The existence of corrosive gases (CO2 and H2S) in oil wells under High-Pressure High-Temperature (HPHT) condition exacerbates the severity of tubular corrosion and increases the need for different corrosion mitigation ...
Webs for Type Q Lie Superalgebras
(2017-12-15)
In the first part of this dissertation, we construct a monoidal supercategory whose morphism spaces are spanned by equivalence classes of diagrams called oriented type Q webs, modulo certain relations. We then prove a ...
Citizen-driven policy mobility for urban agriculture
(2017-05-12)
The practice of sharing ideas among cities is almost as old as cities themselves. This relational phenomenon is particularly pronounced when it comes to policies focused on urban development or governance of land use. Often ...
CHALLENGES OF THE AFRICAN UNION MISSION IN SUDAN: GROUNDED THEORY CASE STUDY 2004-2007 FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF US SENIOR OFFICIALS
(2017)
The African nations determined that an African continental body was needed to specifically address the African States’ needs for self-determination in addressing African problems, rather than relying on outside assistance, ...
BIONANOFIBER-BASED NANOSTRUCTURE FABRICATION AND APPLICATIONS
(2017-12)
Among various strategies for the synthesis and assembly of nano-scaled structures, bio-templating is an efficient method due to the unique physical and chemical properties of the template bionanomaterials, thus has experienced ...
Being Native American In a Higher Education Setting
(2017-05-12)
This qualitative study examined the Native American Graduate Student experience at the University of Oklahoma. Native American graduate students who are enrolled members of their tribes were included in this study. ...
A CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF SHAME IN MORAL EDUCATION BETWEEN SOUTH KOREA AND THE UNITED STATES
(2017-05)
Although there have been various issues involving shame in the educational scene, little research in the field of philosophy of education has seriously investigated this topic. In my dissertation, a comparative philosophical ...
Chemical Modeling of Unstable Intermediates in Heme-mediated NOx Biology
(2017-05-12)
This dissertation describes the preparation, characterization, and reactivity of several critical unstable intermediates of relevance to the global N-cycle. Their spectroscopic signatures and chemical reactivities were ...