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Seismic methods applied to structural interpretation
(2019-12-13)
Seismic modeling and seismic attribute assisted interpretation are conducted to illustrate the use of seismic methods in structural interpretation. Pre-stack time migration (PSTM) seismic modeling is used to study common ...
Teaching Us to Forget: United States History Textbooks, the Plains Wars, and Public Memory
(2019-05-10)
History education is the cornerstone of public memory construction in the United States, and it has the potential to facilitate the necessary process of reconciliation with our troubled past. And yet after a century of ...
Scripture, Sects, and Shakespeare: Rupture and Reconciliation on the Early Modern Stage
(2019-05-02)
Scripture, Sects, and Shakespeare: Rupture and Reconciliation on the Early Modern Stage explores how Shakespearean drama is shaped by and responds to the Protestant Reformation's crisis of hermeneutical authority. With the ...
Study of Carbon Particulates in Coflow Diffusion Vaporized Biodiesel, Diesel, and Blended Biodiesel/Diesel Air-Flames
(2019-08-01)
Biodiesel, which is a biodegradable and renewable fuel, has been considered one of the best alternative fuels for diesel due to its chemical similarity. Compared to diesel, burning biodiesel will reduce various emissions ...
Evaluating Whether Prepotent Awareness Predicts Effects of Cultural Disfluency
(2019-12)
Two studies assessed whether a single- or dual-prime design could be used to elicit Cultural Disfluency (Aim 1), and whether Prepotent Awareness would predict mean differences computed between Control and Experimental ...
GEOMETRIC QUANTIZATION OF A SEMI-GLOBAL MODEL OF A FOCUS-FOCUS SINGULARITY
(2019-08-01)
Quantization of a classical mechanical system is an old problem in physics.
In classical mechanics, the evolution of the system is given by a Hamiltonian vector field
on a symplectic manifold (``phase space''). ...
THE WORLD BELOW: HOW RESOURCES AND HABITAT INFLUENCE INSECT COMMUNITIES ACROSS SPACE AND THROUGH TIME
(2019-05-10)
Insects are one of the most abundant, diverse, and ecologically important clades of organisms. They represent up to 5-10 million species, accounting for approximately 46% of the animal biomass on Earth. Yet, despite the ...
Representations of the Automorphism Group of a Right-Angled Coxeter Group
(2019-05-10)
In 2009 Grunewald and Lubotzky published a paper in which they defined a family of linear representations of the automorphism group of a free group. In this dissertation, we will use their ideas to construct a family of ...
Design and Assessment of Innovative Dual-Mode Rolling Isolation Systems
(2019-08)
Loss of operation or devastating damage to buildings and industrial structures, as well as equipment housed in them, has been observed due to earthquake-induced vibrations. A common source of operational downtime is due ...
FREEDOM IS MY BUSINESS: CARL MCINTIRE, CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM AND THE RISE OF MODERN CONSERVATISM
(2019)
Carl McIntire (1906-2002), the fiery Fundamentalist minister played a key role in the rise of the modern Conservative movement that emerged following the Second World War. From his home base in the Philadelphia suburb of ...