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State-of-the-Art Scanning Electron Microscope for Multiple Applications: From Solar-Cells to Megaspores
(2016-05)The University of Oklahoma (OU) recently acquired a Zeiss Neon, a dual beam SEM/FIB Cross beam machine. This thesis focuses on its utilization via two independent projects, one involving the characterization of solar-cells ... -
Station management perceptions of barter syndication : a pilot study
(1992)Television stations may obtain off-network and other syndicated programing for little or no cash outlay. The practice of barter is used in nearly every commercial television station. In this pilot study, the barter industry, ... -
A Statistical Approach to Diagnosing Storm Mode
(2021-12-17)Determining storm mode (linear or isolated) is a crucial component of any severe weather forecast. Isolated storms are associated with a greater likelihood of significant (EF2+) tornadoes and very large (2”+) hail, while ... -
Steady State Permeability Measurements in Shales
(2018)Characterizing matrix permeability in shale formations is vital to determining the long term productivity of a reservoir as well as determining the optimal completion design. Permeability of shales lies in the nanodarcy ... -
The Sterilization of Native American Women in Oklahoma
(2021-05-14)In 1974, the Indian Health Service (IHS) hospital in Claremore, Oklahoma sterilized forty-eight Native American women in the month of July alone. Most of these women were in their twenties. This is a staggering number ... -
Stewardship or Dominion? An Ethnography of Climate Change in Evangelical Oklahoma
(2017)Conservative evangelical Christians have been labeled by liberal supporters of climate change research as “climate change deniers.” However, conservative evangelical Christians do not deny climate change so much as integrate ... -
Stochastic Determination of Formation Parting Pressure for Water Injection Well
(2017-12)Water injection is arguably the most widely used technology in maintaining reservoir pressure and enhanced oil recovery. However, the water injectivity always declines as water injection process continuing due to the ... -
Stories as Relations
(2023-05)This research will focus on understanding the personhood of Indigenous women and finding one’s light and autonomy. Here, I build on the work of Leanne Simpson and Laura Harjo about finding one’s light and autonomy and ... -
Strategies for Catalytic Upgrading of Vapor Streams from Thermal Fractionation of Biomass
(2016-05)Herein several strategies for the catalytic upgrading of biomass to green chemicals and fuels are discussed. Both vapor and liquid phase reaction pathways have been investigated. Many different fuel precursors and chemical ... -
The Stratiform Radiation Effect on Tropical Organized Deep Convection
(2023-12-15)Idealized studies of self-aggregation have implicated the importance of longwave (LW) cloud-radiative forcing (CRF) in facilitating the upscale development of moist convection. While different cloud structures are known ... -
STRATIGRAPHIC AND TEXTURAL ANALYSIS OF NANODIAMONDS ACROSS THE YOUNGER DRYAS BOUNDARY SEDIMENTS OF WESTERN OKLAHOMA
(2016)Exposed sediment profiles of the panhandle of western Oklahoma have previously been shown to contain two peak abundances of nanodiamonds, one dated approximately to the Younger Dryas and the other from the Late Holocene. ... -
STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE OF THE MISSISSIPPIAN LIMESTONE THROUGH INTEGRATED ELECTROFACIES CLASSIFICATION, HARDTNER FIELD AREA, KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA
(2017-05-13)The Mississippian Limestone formed through complex structural, stratigraphic, and diagenetic processes involving subsidence, tectonic uplift leading to periodic subaerial exposure, changes in ocean chemistry, variability ... -
Stratigraphic variability of mineralogy, rock types and porosity of the Wolfcamp Formation using multi-mineral petrophysical analysis and seismically constrained reservoir modeling, Northwest Shelf, Delaware Basin
(2020-07)The Wolfcamp Formation on the Northwest Shelf of the Delaware Basin formed in a low-angle (<1̊ ) slope-to-basin depositional environment and is primarily composed of sediment gravity flows. Multi-scale heterogeneities ... -
Stratigraphic Variability of Mississippian Meramec Chemofacies and Petrophysical Properties Using Machine Learning and Geostatistical Modeling, STACK Trend, Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma
(2019-12-13)Mississippian deposits and reservoirs in the STACK play (Sooner Trend in the Anadarko [Basin] in Canadian and Kingfisher counties) of central Oklahoma are comprised of silty limestones, calcareous siltstones, argillaceou ... -
Stratigraphy and palynomorphs composition of the Woodford Shale in the Wyche Farm Shale Pit, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma
This work presents a detailed lithofacies description and sequence stratigraphy model for the fine grained rocks cored at the Wyche-I well, in the Lawrence Uplift, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma. The detailed core description, ... -
STREAM FRAGMENTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE CONDITION IN THE GREAT PLAINS
(2017-05-12)Rivers and streams within the Great Plains have undergone extensive levels of fragmentation by road culverts, which has led to habitat loss, degraded water quality, and a loss of aquatic biodiversity. There is a pressing ... -
Strengths and Limitations of NSSL's Experimental Warn-on-Forecast System for Ensembles in Forecasting Cyclic Mesocyclogenesis
(2018-12-14)Cyclic mesocyclogenesis is the process by which a supercell produces multiple mesocyclones with similar life cycles. Supercells that exhibit cyclic mesocyclogenesis (i.e. cyclic supercells) have the potential to produce ... -
Stress Analysis of Recent Earthquakes in Oklahoma
(2016-07)The central US, especially Oklahoma, has become a seismically active region since 2009. Knowing the current stress state of the crust in Oklahoma is essential for understanding this activity increase. My thesis focuses on ... -
STRESS PATH AND PORE PRESSURE IN AND AROUND A PRODUCING FORMATION PIERCED BY A SALT DOME
(2018)The pore pressure decrease due to production from a reservoir causes changes in the total and effective stresses, leading to compaction and deformation of the reservoir and the surrounding rocks, which can translate into ... -
Structural analysis of a naturally fractured carbonate field in the south-east Gulf of Mexico.
(2018-05)Fractured carbonates produce more than 85% of hydrocarbon production in Mexico. A large number of the producing fields are located in the South Gulf Salt Province (SGSP) in Campeche Bay within the Upper Jurassic Kimmeridgian ...