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Ruggedized Feeding Techniques for Placement Insensitive Antennas
(2018-08-02)Today's warfighter relies on extensive wireless technology to stay connected to allied forces and the battle theater. Communication equipment, IFF (identification friend-or-foe) identifiers, global positioning systems, ... -
THE RUNNING BACK BY COMMITTEE APPROACH AND ITS EFFECT ON THE RUNNING BACK LABOR MARKET IN THE NFL
(2024-05-10)Running back salaries in the National Football League have been a major point of discussion for the last two offseason cycles. The league has seen some of the highest performing players struggle to receive satisfactory ... -
RUNNING SCARED: FEAR, SPACE, AND AFFECT IN AMNESIA: THE DARK DESCENT
(2019)Most contemporary 3-D video games provide a wealth of visual information to players to help them navigate the in-game virtual space. Maps, compasses, beacons, and other visual guides are often necessary components of ... -
Running with Rosalie Fish: (Over)Laps in Rhetorical Race Spaces
(2024-05-10)Rosalie Fish (Cowlitz/Muckleshoot) is an activist who runs for The University of Washington and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. During her races, she dons red paint, and her body exists as a living archive, carrying ... -
RWIS based road condition prediction using machine learning algorithms
(2021-06-26)The need for a forecasting model of road conditions is becoming evermore critical, given the effects of ever-increasing severity in weather. Drastic changes in weather, especially cold fronts, often lead to dangerous roads. ... -
Sand thickness estimation using spectral decomposition
(2004)Spectral decomposition of seismic data has been used to identify thin beds and other possible changes subsurface sand layers. Spectral decomposition can be used as a tool for estimating bed thickness. This thesis uses a ... -
SAR Image Formation via Subapertures and 2D Backprojection
(2020-05-08)Radar imaging requires the use of wide bandwidth and a long coherent processing interval, resulting in range and Doppler migration throughout the observation period. This migration must be compensated in order to properly ... -
SAVAGES, SETTLERS, AND SLAVES: A COMANCHE TRIBALOGRAPHY OF EDUCATION, FOOTBALL, AND RACE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
(2018)This thesis utilizes the Sigma Alpha Episilon (SAE) incident on March 7th, 2015, as a way to open discussion regarding race, football, and the University of Oklahoma, connecting the university’s response to the situation ... -
Scaffolded Writing to Improve Reading Comprehension for English Learners
(2019-08-01)The objective of this study was to determine effective strategies for using scaffolded writing to improve or expand reading comprehension for newcomer and intermediate level English Language Learners in the English ... -
Scalable Multipartite Entanglement Using Squeezed light
(2022)Quantum entanglement is a pure quantum mechanical phenomena with no classical counterpart. The strong non locality of multipartite entangled states makes it suitable for application of quantum mechanics towards quantum ... -
SCALE FORMATION IN POROUS MEDIA AND ITS IMPACT ON OIL RECOVERY
(2016-08-08)The objectives of this study include: (1) investigation of the chemical and thermodynamic mechanisms of scale formation in porous media and its impact on formation damage; (2) development of a model to predict permeability ... -
Scale Up Reactive Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media Using Continuous Time Random Walk Approach
(2017-08)Reservoir heterogeneities strongly affect the fluid flow in porous media. The behavior of transport and reaction of fluid varies at different scales, leading to the discrepancies between laboratory experiments and field ... -
Scale-dependent Inflation for Multiscale Ensemble based Data Assimilation
(2023-12-15)The degree of the background ensemble deficiency, often manifested as ensemble underdispersion, can vary at different scales in the ensemble-based data assimilation. This study develops the new scale-dependent inflation ... -
Scholarship-Student Matching Process Optimization
(2017-12-15)Students need the support of financial aid to help them pay for college tuition and fees. One source of financial aid comes from scholarships. Universities are a primary source for scholarships. The University of Oklahoma ... -
Science and the Construction of Therapeutics in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, 1879-1906
(2018-05)The late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw a crisis in therapeutics as scientific developments overturned the theoretical underpinnings of humoral medicine, leaving room for lively and pluralistic discourses of health ... -
“SCIENCE IS MAGIC THAT WORKS”: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE EARLY WORK OF KURT VONNEGUT, 1952-1963
(2018-05-11)Kurt Vonnegut’s writing helped to push the boundaries of our conventional understanding of twentieth-century American literature through his inclusion of science fiction themes in many of his works and his poignant discussions ... -
SCIENCE, ENERGY AND KNOWLEDGE. AN ANALYSIS OF THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE ON THE SYNTHETIC FUELS IN THE 1970S AND 1980S
(2017-08-01)Research breeds research. When the environment (politics, human and capital resources, and the demand for the good) is right, research activity compounds itself. The growth rate continues until research activity is at the ... -
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS (STEM) PROFESSIONALS’ EXPECTATIONS OF HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES: A REGIONAL STUDY
(2016-08-12)The number of high school graduates that are both capable and interested in pursuing a STEM career is currently not enough to meet the growing need for a workforce equipped with STEM skills. Business and industry representatives ... -
Sea Level Rise in Egypt's Nile River Delta: Policy Recommendations to Address Agricultural Decline and Infrastructural Damage
(2020-05-08)In this thesis, I evaluate the effects of sea level rise on agriculture and infrastructure in Egypt’s Nile River Delta. In response to these effects, I propose policy recommendations to adapt to sea level rise and ultimately ... -
SEASONAL AND CLIMATIC MODEL OF LESSER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN DEMOGRAPHICS
(2017-05)Abstract The lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) has suffered substantial losses in both population number and occupied range over the last century. Although the species has been the focus of range-wide ...