Browsing OU - Theses by Title
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Investigating Mound Activities at Mississippian Sites in the Southeast: A Spatial Analysis of Lithic Debitage at the Pevey Site (22LW510) in Mississippi
(2017)The Pevey site on the Pearl River in Mississippi is a large, multi-mound site from the Mississippi Period (1200-1600 A.D.). Relatively unstudied compared to other large mound sites in the Southeast, Pevey’s distinctive ... -
Investigating technologies and techniques for flood monitoring and detecting
(2022-08-04)The need for a flood alerting and forecasting system is becoming ever more critical, especially given the effects of increasing severe weather over the last ten years. Flash floods, particularly, are deadly because of the ... -
Investigating The Impact of Data Visualization Based On Real Time Construction Project Information
(2016)Managing construction projects is a complex operation. Multiple activities are executed at the same time, and numerous variables impact building development. Therefore, construction professionals need access to worksite ... -
Investigating the potential of synthetic data for enabling AI-based zero-touch network automation
(2021)The essence and importance of rich and relevant data can not be overemphasized in the field of artificial intelligence. From machine learning to deep learning models, the performance of a model is majorly dependent on the ... -
Investigating the relationship between aerosol properties and severe weather parameters
(2022-05)Severe Weather is a common, yet dangerous aspect of weather and climate in the central Great Plains region of the United States. Finding ways to improve the quality of forecasting this phenomenon is important for improving ... -
INVESTIGATION AND REAL-TIME MONITORING FOR SAFE WASTE-WATER DISPOSAL WITH A FOCUS ON ARBUCKLE GROUP, OKLAHOMA
(2018)Increase in the earthquakes in the State of Oklahoma in recent years has been tremendous with wastewater disposal considered to be the primary reason behind this increase. A large quantity of wastewater is being injected ... -
An Investigation Between Tornadic and Non-Tornadic QLCS Mesovortices using Operational and Experimental MRMS Products
(2023-08-04)Quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) tornadoes have become an active area of research over the last several years. Through numerical simulations, it is theorized that QLCS vortex formation occurs near the surface in a ... -
INVESTIGATION INTO MANUFACTURING PARTS WITHIN PARTS TO PRODUCE A HIGHER PRESSURE RESILIENT SPHERICAL PRESSURE VESSEL
(2024-05-11)Specifically, this thesis is an investigation into the use of Additive Manufacturing (AM) for the construction of a small rocket component whose fabrication by means of AM has not been researched extensively. In general, ... -
Investigation into Oilfield Waste Water Disposal Through Eutectic Freeze Crystallization
(2018-05-11)The principal question for this thesis is as follows: “How can freeze crystallization be utilized to treat flowback and produced water from oilfield operations?” Current waste water disposal methods in the oil industry ... -
Investigation of 3D Printed Porous Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)/Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Nanocomposites for Sensing Application
(2020-07-30)Sensors manufactured using piezoresistive elastomeric nanocomposites have a wide range of applications in fields such as structural health monitoring, robotics and biomedical industries. These nanocomposites are a mixture ... -
Investigation of a Frequency and Pattern Reconfigurable Slot Array Utilizing Ring Resonator End Loads
(2017-12)Fixed-bandwidth wireless systems are forced to operate in preallocated blocks of frequencies, often wasting valuable spectrum. Whereas, systems with reconfigurable antennas that can tune resonant frequency, polarization, ... -
Investigation of a Generalized Frequency Domain Method for Modeling Time-Varying Loads on Antennas
(2019-12-13)Within traditional antenna design, the behavior of the antenna can be dictated by its physical dimensions and their proportions to a wavelength. Traditional electrically small antennas in particular face many limitations ... -
Investigation of Antenna Edge Treatments and Ground Plane Coupling Behavior
(2016-12-16)Guided wave structures can perform as broadband antenna elements through the use of a gradual impedance transformation. The impedance match is typically created through gradual structural changes to match the impedance of ... -
INVESTIGATION OF BIOACTIVITIES AND INDUCTION OF NEW METABOLITES IN FUNGI
(2016-12)In these studies, three different problems are looked at: the need for new compounds to treat infections caused by the Trichomonas vaginalis parasite, the development of methodology to induce production of new metabolites, ... -
INVESTIGATION OF CASING DEFORMATION DURING HYDRAULIC FRACTURING CONSIDERING WELLBORE CENTRALIZATION AND CEMENT VOIDS
(2018)The fast growth of shale gas development through horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has expanded the extraction of hydrocarbon resources in countries such as the United States, China, and Argentina. Even though ... -
Investigation of Chemically Prestressed Concrete
(2018-05-12)This research investigated the possibility of prestressing a concrete element by inducing expansion of the concrete paste at an early age. This behavior is being called chemically prestressed concrete, for this project, ... -
Investigation of Cointegration Relationships in Turbulent Flows
(2016)Turbulence has often been called one of the last unsolved problems of classical physics and impacts a wide variety of fields in nature and engineering. An important area of focus in turbulence research is the discovery and ... -
Investigation of Designs for Tuning of Mutual Coupling and Operating Frequency in High-Power Slot Antenna Arrays
(2020-05-08)Today's congested frequency spectrum calls for frequency agile arrays and antennas that can avoid the interference of the myriad of RF sources, from satellites to amateur radio, that take up the same bandwidths. Previous ... -
INVESTIGATION OF DRILLSTRING VIBRATIONS USING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD SIMULATIONS AND DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF EXPERIMENTAL SETUP
(2017-05-12)In this study, an extensive assortment of the principal studies related to drill-string vibrations is presented, focusing on analytical studies, finite element models and experimental setups. A discussion on the current ... -
AN INVESTIGATION OF EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS REQUIRED TO STUDY HYDROCARBON PHASE BEHAVIOR UNDER CONSTANT VOLUME AND CONSTANT COMPOSITION CONDITIONS
(2016)Accurate fluid phase behavior evaluation is essential for reservoir engineers to predict the type of reservoir, oil and gas in place, and develop proper production strategies. The change in phase behavior and phase equilibrium ...