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The Influence of Urban Form and Vegetation on Near-Source Dispersion in a Realistic Urban Canopy
(2019-12)The atmospheric boundary layer controls many interactions within the troposphere from larger scale atmospheric features to land-atmospheric interactions. The urban boundary layer is the layer above an urban area that is ... -
Influences of the Aerosol Invigoration Effect on Radar Signatures of Deep Convection near Houston TX Using a Bulk Statistical Framework
(2023-08-04)Aerosol-deep convective cloud (DCC) interactions remain a frontier in the study of water cycles, energy budgets, climate models, and air quality, partly because it can be difficult to disentangle aerosol impacts from the ... -
Information content analysis of combined lidar-polarimeter retrievals to improve aerosol remote sensing accuracy
(2021)Aerosols are small particles suspended in the atmosphere which affect global climate change via scattering and absorbing sunlight and serving as cloud condensation nuclei. Moreover, the prevalence of some anthropogenic and ... -
Information Theoretic Modeling of Antennas
(2024-05-10)Linear time-invariant (LTI) electrically small antennas (ESAs) have inherent limitations in their capabilities. Two significant limitations apply to LTI antennas: a lower bound on the antenna Q-factor, which causes a narrow ... -
The Information-Seeking Behavior of Catholic Women Discerning a Vocation to Religious Life
(2016-05-13)Approximately 10% of Roman Catholic women will seriously discern a vocation to religious life during their lifetime (CARA, 2009). Spiritual discernment is often characterized by prayer and spiritual direction, but also ... -
Infrared Thermal Imaging-Based Thermal Diffusivity Measurement Using Angstrom Method
(2021-05-14)Characterizing the thermal diffusivity of materials is a vital step in the creation of new polymer nanocomposites. Determining the in-plane thermal diffusivity as compared to the through-plane thermal diffusivity may show ... -
Infrastructure damage due to earthquakes and flooding in the Little River Watershed: a HAZUS investigation
(2023-08-04)The Socially Sustainable Solutions for Water, Carbon, and Infrastructure Resilience in Oklahoma (S3OK) is a multidisciplinary research project to identify socially sustainable solutions to “wicked” problems within the State ... -
INJECTION EXPERIMENTS ON ROCKS UNDER TRIAXIAL CONDITION WITH ACOUSTIC EMISSION MONITORING
(2016-12)This work presents the results of a series of triaxial- injection experiments carried out on two basalt cores from the Newberry geothermal field well GEO-N2 and a Mississippi lime stone. A combination of triaxial and ... -
Innovation to Manage Crisis: A Study of Leadership Competencies Important for Both Crisis Management and Innovation
(2016-05)This study examines the correlation between leadership competencies found in organizations dealing with crisis and organizations known for their innovation. It is hypothesized that identifying leadership competencies that ... -
Insights Into the Paleoclimate of the Western Interior Seaway Through the Analysis of Palynomorphs and Petrified Wood from the Short Canyon Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation
(2023-05)The Cedar Mountain Formation is a rich source of information on North American megafauna during the Cretaceous, preserving sediments deposited in floodplains related to the Western Interior Seaway. In this thesis, petrified ... -
Insights on the translocation of a critically endangered crocodylian: Diet and body condition of headstart and wild Philippine crocodiles (Crocodylus mindorensis)
(2019)Studies of diet are fundamental to understanding a species’ ecology, and in relation to conservation translocations, dietary studies of headstart populations are particularly rare and valuable. These studies can yield ... -
Integrated 3D Printing of Robotic Structures and Circuits
(2016-12)Advances in upper limb prostheses have lowered the cost of prosthetic limbs, enabling access for a larger population of amputees. Other advancements, such as robotic prosthetics, enable amputees to more easily grasp ... -
AN INTEGRATED ANALYSIS OF SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY, PETROLEUM GEOCHEMISTRY, AND DEVONIAN MASS EXTINCTION EVENTS IN THE WOODFORD SHALE, SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA
(2017-12-16)Geochemical analyses of the Late Devonian-Early Mississippian Woodford Shale have revealed a more dynamic history than previously considered, reflecting discrete changes in the conditions surrounding its depositional ... -
Integrated characterization of the Woodford Shale in the southern Cherokee Platform, Oklahoma
The Late Devonian-Early Mississippian, organic-rich Woodford Shale is considered as one of the most important unconventional resources for oil and gas in the United States of America. This formation was targeted for gas ... -
Integrated Diagenetic and Paleomagnetic Study of the Sycamore Formation in the Southern Flank of the Arbuckle Anticline, Southern Oklahoma
(2021-05-16)This study aimed to evaluate the paragenesis of the Mississippian Sycamore Formation in the southern Flank of the Arbuckle Anticline in order to document the extent of diagenetic alteration in outcrop, assess the factors ... -
Integrated Geochemistry and Sedimentology of the Wolfcamp B3 and B2 Intervals, Midland Basin, TX
(2019)The Permian-aged, hydrocarbon-rich, mixed carbonate-siliciclastic mudrocks of Midland Basin Wolfcamp B2 and B3 are highly heterogeneous, making paleoenvironmental reconstruction difficult. The high-frequency lithologic and ... -
INTEGRATED GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION AT THE BED SCALE OF THE WOODFORD SHALE AT THE I-35 OUTCROP, SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA
(2017)A road-cut exposure located on the southern flank of the Arbuckle anticline along the Interstate-35 provided the opportunity to document in detail the lithological heterogeneities of the uppermost 81 feet of the Woodford ... -
Integrated geomechanics and geological characterization of the Devonian-Mississippian Woodford Shale
(2011)In this thesis, preserved Woodford Shale samples of different mineralogy compositions were obtained from a shallow research well in Oklahoma and prepared for various laboratory mechanical characterizations including the ... -
An Integrated LiDAR-XRF Study and Geomechanical Lithofacies Analysis of the Leonardian Upper Bone Spring Formation, Bone Canyon, Texas
(2019-05)The purpose of this study is to constrain geomechanical parameters effecting hydraulic stimulation networks within the upper Bone Spring formation, through the collection and examination of outcrop data. Data utilized in ... -
INTEGRATED MODELING AND SIMULATION OF MULTI-STAGE HYDRAULIC FRACTURED WELLS IN THE WOODFORD SHALE
(2019-08-01)The Late Devonian-Early Mississippian Woodford shale is known as the main source rock in the state of Oklahoma, and one of the most attractive unconventional plays in the U.S. Early Woodford’s exploration and development ...