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RESPONSES OF TOTAL AND ACTIVE SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES TO CLIMATE WARMING
(2019-12)
As illustrated by accumulating scientific evidence, unconscionable anthropogenic activities since industrialization such as intensive land utilization and accumulation of various greenhouse gases due to fossil fuel combustion ...
Applied petroleum source rock evaluation and high-resolution sequence stratigraphy for unconventional reservoirs in La Luna Formation (Cenomanian- Santonian) Northwest Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela.
(2019-05-10)
Since the early 2000s, the exploitation of unconventional reservoirs has become very important around the world because of their high potential source of energy and their high economic value. Venezuela possesses a world-class, ...
UNDERSTANDING THE FUNDAMENTAL DRIVE MECHANISMS FOR HUFF-N-PUFF ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY IN TIGHT FORMATIONS
(2019-12-13)
Unconventional oil and gas resources have recently become the major source of produced hydrocarbons in the US. The change in the energy landscape follows nearly two decades of technological breakthroughs including horizontal ...
Systematic Colonization: The Coproduction of Electrification and Colonialism in New Zealand
(2019-05-10)
The central of argument of Systematic Colonization is that in New Zealand’s transition to electric power is inseparable from its colonization. This dissertation integrates energy history, the history of technology, and New ...
Use of the Target Language in Beginning Japanese
(2019-05)
The purpose of this study was to investigate how two Japanese teachers used the target language (Japanese) and students’ first language (English) in a college-level, beginning Japanese course. Although the ACTFL (American ...
Stimulating Exploration in Complex Task Learning via Pre-Practice and Intermittent Knowledge Enrichment
(2019-08)
A growing body of scholarly literature points to the importance of exploratory behavior in the acquisition of complex skills. The purpose of this laboratory study, in which 257 undergraduate students (64% male) learned to ...
UNDERSTANDING THE MOTIVATIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF TEACHERS WHO CHANGE SCHOOLS
(2019-05)
Teacher attrition is a challenge that has plagued our public school system for nearly a century. While attrition rates have consistently risen over the past 30 years, the cost of teacher turnover has moved beyond finances, ...
Polarimetric and Rapid-Scan Radar Observations of Tornadoes
(2019)
Tornadoes are capable of lofting large pieces of debris that present irregular shapes, near-random orientations, and a wide range of dielectric constants to polarimetric radars. While ties between tornadic debris signature ...
Images of Place in American Spaceflight, 1958 - 1974
(2019)
This project is a cultural history of images of place in the American space programs of the 1960s, focused on images of Kennedy Space Center (KSC), where the actual launches of rockets took place, and the Manned Spacecraft ...
Essays in Banking: Consolidation, Shock Transmission, and Payout
(2019-05)
This dissertation comprises three essays. The first documents the equilibrating effect of bank M&As on deposit and loan markets; the second explores board interlocks as a means of bank-shock transmission across sectors; ...