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Imagining Oklahoma: Contemporary Women Writing Place
(2009)
Place is constantly being reconstituted, yet few studies look at how that change occurs over time. This dissertation analyzes portrayals of Oklahoma in fiction to explore how the representation of place in Oklahoma evolved. ...
Characterization of Subsurface Microbial Communities Involved in Bioremediation of Uranium and Nitrate
(2009)
Mining and enrichment of uranium (U) for nuclear weapons and energy has left this radionuclide an important groundwater contaminant in the United States and worldwide. Migration of U in groundwater can be prevented by U ...
Knapsack Problems; Methods, Models and Applications
(2009)
Knapsack problem (KP) has broad applications in different fields such as machine scheduling, space allocation, and asset optimization. Meanwhile, it is a hard problem due to its computational complexity, but numerous ...
MOLECULAR ENGINEERING STRATEGIES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF FUELS FROM CONVENTIONAL AND RENEWABLE RESOURCES
(2009)
The combination of Quantitative Structure Property Relationships (QSPR) with experimental studies using model compounds provides great promise for fuel upgrading. Through this approach, QSPR software is utilized to predict ...
NON-NEWTONIAN POWER-LAW FLUID FLOW IN ECCENTRIC ANNULI: CFD SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY
(2009)
Numerous publications have addressed the problems inherent to calculating wellbore hydraulics in eccentric annulus. The challenge of theoretical and numerical studies of fluid flow in an eccentric annulus is mainly due to ...
The Impact of Interdisciplinary Lesson Study on Teachers' Instructional Decisions and Technology Use
(2009)
Schools are complex institutions in which change occurs almost constantly. As each new piece of information is learned, the learner is changed, never to return to the same state they were prior to the act of learning, ...
Examination of the Effects of Family and Peers on Deviance Are Gender and Culture
(2009)
Using comparable self-reported survey data on deviance collected among college students in Japan (n=433) and the United States (n=363), I assess the applicability of Travis Hirschi's social bond and Ronald L. Aker's social ...
Like White on Rice: Asianness, Whiteness, and Identity
(2009)
The primary goal of this study is to examine the intersection between Whiteness and Asianness from the perspective of Asian Americans in order to acknowledge ways in which racial consciousness relates to communicative ...
The Effect of Strong Electric Fields on Tyrosine Hydroxylase Activity
(2009)
Tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) catalyzes the first and, more importantly, the rate-limiting step in the biosynthetic pathway of the catecholamine neurotransmitters dopamine, norepinephrine and epinephrine. The regulation of ...
EDUCATIONAL INCONGRUENCE: AN EXPLORATION OF THE DISCONNECTION BETWEEN FORMAL SCHOOLING AND THE NATURAL LEARNING OF CHILDREN
(2009)
Educational incongruence exists in classrooms today. Formal schooling is often incongruent and disconnected with the natural learning of children. This can result in educational experiences that fail to meet personal and ...