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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Challenges of Building Coptic Spaces in Contemporary Egypt
(2022-05)The Coptic community of Egypt operates daily under pressures from state, society, and the Coptic Orthodox Church, and yet are expected to be an invisible minority that places its national identity over its ethnoreligious ... -
Between the leaves: cannabis policy, medicalization, and user communities in the Sooner State
(2023-12-15)This anthropological study uses an ethnographic approach to contextualize and explore the policy behind Oklahoma’s expansive medical cannabis industry and the lived experiences of user communities in the state. First, I ... -
Beyond Black and White: Native American Representation in Mainstream Media
(2016-05-13)The media has the ability to shape public opinion and influence policy direction. The case of Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl gained national attention as the ‘Baby Veronica’ case. The outcome of this particular custodial ... -
A Bi-Objective Formulation for Robust Defense Strategies in Multi-Commodity Networks: Application to Rail Freight
(2017-05)Characterizing system performance under disruption is a growing area of research, particularly for describing a system’s resilience to a disruption event. Within the framework of system resilience, this study approaches ... -
Bias and bias remediation in creative problem-solving: Managing biases through forecasting
(2017)Although scholars have identified many variables that affect creative problem-solving, less attention has been given to variables that might lead to failure in creative problem-solving. One set of variables that might lead ... -
Biased Neutrality: Examining the Existence of Gender Segregation and Clustering in the Retail Industry
(2017-12-15)A significant portion of existing research on gender segregation in the workplace is devoted to the study of gender dominance across professions, but few studies have focused on job segregation within specific industries. ... -
Bible Translation and Language Renewal: A Collaborative Approach
(2016-05)Many indigenous languages face attrition globally as the languages of the West continue to grow in influence. As linguists and indigenous speech communities struggle to organize effective language programs, many languages ... -
Big Brother in Blue: The Prying Eyes of the Police Surveillance State and Perceptions Shaped by Violent Crime Victimization
(2023-08-04)Police surveillance technologies have become increasingly prevalent in contemporary Western society, raising public concerns about privacy and the illegitimate police use of such surveillance. Still, there is little existing ... -
BIG DATA ANALYTICS IN TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS USING THE NPMRDS
(2016-05-06)Urban traffic congestion is common and the cause for loss of productivity (due to trip delays) and higher risk to passenger safety (due to increased time in the automobile), not to mention an increase in fuel consumption, ... -
BIG DATA ANALYTICS SOLUTION FOR SMALL CELLS DEPLOYMENT USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES
(2016-12)This thesis presents a “Novel Small Cell Planning Solution using Machine learning”. The Telecom service providers are interested in estimating various trends in order to plan future upgrades and deployments driven by real ... -
Big-Data Analytics of Human Brain Network Dynamics: A Simultaneous EEG-fMRI Study
(2020-07-30)Psychiatric conditions, such as mood and anxiety, are complex and heterogeneous syndromes that encompass varied, co-occurring symptoms and divergent responses to treatment. To facilitate characterizing the heterogeneity ... -
Billions of Dollars Lost Along the Checkpoints? An Econometric Analysis of Labor Mobility, Economic Development, and Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(2016-05)The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has now persisted for nearly 70 years with little progress towards a solution, and the conflict continues to exact high costs on both societies year after year. Unfortunately, the failure ... -
Biochemical characterization of sporulation-related histidine kinases in Clostridioides difficile
(2022-05-13)Histidine kinases are one of the two proteins that constitute a two-component signal transduction system. These systems are used by bacteria, fungi, and several plants to sense the conditions of their environment and alter ... -
Biodiversity conservation versus wind power development in the state of Oklahoma: assessing opinion where green interest scollide
(2020-05)Wind energy development represents one pursuit in sustainable technology meant to reduce negative impacts on the environment. Wind energy, however, may not be environmentally benign, as these activities can conflict or ... -
Biological sulfate removal using waste organic substrates in continuous flow-through columns simulating mine water vertical flow bioreactors
(2020)In mine water passive treatment systems, biological sulfate (SO42-) reduction in vertical flow bioreactors (VFBRs) is often utilized to precipitate trace metals as metal sulfides and to generate alkalinity. Sulfate removal ... -
Biomolecular Preservation in Dental Calculus from the Teotihuacan Ritual Landscape
(2019-05-10)The advent of high-throughput sequencing techniques has yielded a wealth of genomic information about the human oral microbiome. This research has expanded with the direct sequencing of DNA from dental calculus (calcified ... -
BIOPHILIC DESIGN CONTRIBUTIONS TO HEALTH AND WELLNESS IN COWORKING SETTINGS
(2019-05-10)Workplace design has evolved throughout the years, not only did the 21st century change the workspace paradigms, technological advancement and urbanization have changed where and when people work as well. There is a raised ... -
Bison Hides and Biomechanics: Experimental Bioarchaeology of Wichita Scraper Technologies
(2017-05)This study utilizes methodologies and theories from biological anthropology, archaeology, and kinesiology to conduct an experiment to test the effects of a change in Wichita scraping technologies during the Pre- and ... -
Blanket stories and blurring binaries: contemporary Native American art and the discourse of authorship
This thesis explores the relationship between Native American art and the recent rise in participatory art. In this thesis I question the precedents for the subversion of single authorship and collective creation, how ... -
Blood Damage Analysis using Computational Fluid Dynamics of Blood Flow through a Functioning and Malfunctioning Bileaflet Artificial Heart Valve
(2018-08)Artificial heart valves are an invaluable tool to treat heart defects and diseases. However, these prosthetic devices may expose the blood to turbulent flow conditions leading to unnaturally high stress that can damage ...