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Performance Measurement Indicators in the Healthcare Industry: A Systematic Review
(2016-08)Objectives: The purpose of this study is to explore and investigate the types of employee performance measurement systems applied in healthcare services and assess their efficiency in providing accurate measurement of the ... -
PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND ANALYSIS OF GEOSYNTHETIC REINFORCED SOIL INTEGRATED BRIDGE SYSTEMS (GRS-IBS) IN OKLAHOMA
(2017-05-12)In 2013, the University of Oklahoma, together with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) and the Oklahoma Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), started a feasibility study of GRS-IBS, which had been promoted by the ... -
The Performance of Cement-Limiting and High-Volume Recycled Material Mix Designs for Use in Concrete Pavements Through Laboratory and Field Implementation Testing
(2016-05)Conventional methods of replacing roadways are beginning to negatively impact the environment. The continued use of high volumes of cement will continue to exacerbate the increasing levels of carbon dioxide. In addition ... -
THE PERFORMANCE OF CONCRETE CONTAINING HIGH VOLUMES OF RECYCLED MATERIALS FOR USE IN PAVEMENT APPLICATIONS
(2017-12)America’s roadway system is in need of a more sustainable, efficient, and innovative plan to improve the condition if its infrastructure. As a possible solution, this research focuses on using recycled concrete aggregate ... -
Performance of Fiber-Reinforced Eco-Friendly Concrete for Bridge Structures
(2016-08-12)Concrete is the leading building material in the world due to its readily available materials, strength, durability, and relatively low cost. With cities growing at a more rapid pace, the demand for concrete is increasing. ... -
Performance of Fiber-Reinforced Self-Consolidating Concrete for Repair of Bridge Sub-Structures
(2016-05)The damage of various reinforced concrete elements accounts for significant annual expenditures by state and federal transportation agencies on bridge maintenance, repair, or replacement. With the rising costs of materials ... -
Performance of Multi-Hazard-Resistant Hollow-Core FRP-Concrete-Steel Columns with High-Strength SCC or UHPC
(2023-12-15)The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and state departments of transportation (DOTs) are actively promoting accelerated bridge construction (ABC) to minimize construction costs by reducing construction time, which in ... -
PERFORMANCE PREDICTION FOR DEEPWATER GULF OF MEXICO USING DATA MINING
(2016-08-05)The estimation of recovery factor is important in every stage of hydrocarbon development, and multiple traditional techniques are available for engineering application for particular fields. However, the estimated recovery ... -
Performance Seal Testing Through The Evaluation Of The Leak Rate Of The Mechanical Seal
(2024-05-10)Sealing technology is important across various industries, particularly within the oil and gas sector. This technology encompasses the capability to obstruct the unrestricted flow of undesirable substances into reservoirs. ... -
The Performer-Audience Connection: An Exploration of the Performative Power of Drag Queens in Oklahoma City
(2016-08)This thesis explores the potential for empowerment that drag performance has on the lives of drag performers and their audience members. I have attended over one hundred drag performances in Oklahoma City from January 2015 ... -
Performing Gender - Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Horned
(2021-05-14)Heavy metal has traditionally been a predominately masculine form of music and artistic expression. Many previous scholars have identified a lack of women in the genre to be one of the leading reasons for its misogynistic ... -
Petrographic analysis with deep convolutional neural networks
(2019-12)Petrographic analysis is based on the microscopic description and classification of rocks and is a crucial technique for sedimentary and diagenetic studies. When compared to hand specimens, thin sections of rocks provide ... -
Petrographic Quartzite Source Discrimination in the Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado: Implications for the Archaeological Study of Prehistoric Hunter-Gathers
(2016-05-14)Recently (Pitblado et al. 2008, 2013), an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geologists collaborated to develop a protocol for sourcing quartzite in the Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado where archaeological assemblages ... -
Petrophysical Characterization of Shales Utilizing Laboratory and Field NMR
(2016-08)Over the years, service companies designed numerous tools for field NMR measurements. Amongst them are CMR-Plus with Schlumberger, MRIL-Prime with Halliburton and MREX with Baker Hughes. NMR logs found success in application ... -
Petrophysical Inversion of Multifrequency Resistivity and Permittivity Logs and Laboratory Measurements
(2017-12)In this thesis, we develop a unified inversion scheme that can be coupled to various type of relaxation models to process multi-frequency measurement of varied electromagnetic (EM) properties for purposes of improved ... -
Petrophysical rock typing in Uinta Basin using models powered by machine learning algorithms
(2023)Petrophysical characterization is key to identifying different rock types for hydrocarbon production optimization. Rock-typing, a petrophysical characterization technique, can be performed using wireline measurements, such ... -
Phenotypic, Chemotaxonomic and Genomic Characterization of a Novel Anaerobic Acetogen, Clostridium muelleri sp. nov. P21T Isolated from Old Hay
(2020-05)Acetogens are a group of obligately anaerobic bacteria that use the Wood-Ljungdahl (acetyl-CoA) pathway for the production of acetyl-CoA from 2 moles of CO2. Acetyl-CoA is then converted to various acids and alcohols such ... -
Photogrammetric sand grainsize analysis of a circumnavigational sampling of beaches of the big island of Hawaii: possible insight into controlling processes and provenance
(2021)A circumnavigational photogrammetric sampling of the sands on the island of Hawai’I was done using the photogrammetry program pyDGS. The island of Hawai’i provides a perfect landscape to test the viability of pyDGS since ...