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The Co-Production of Technoscience and Social Science in Green Revolution Mexico, 1956-1979
(2018)In 1943 the Rockefeller Foundation, nominally in partnership with the Mexican government, initiated its Mexican Agriculture Program (MAP). Over the subsequent decades, a complex network of worldwide inter-governmental/NGO ... -
CO2 HUFF-N-PUFF IN UNCONVENTIONAL RESOURCES PLAYS – AN INTEGRATED MODELING APPROACH FOCUSING ON PERMIAN BASIN
(2019-08-01)Despite the recent growth in oil production from unconventional reservoirs, existing hydraulically fractured horizontal wells face challenges of poor recovery with the rapid production decline over a short life span. ... -
COALBED METHANE COMPREHENSIVE CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING – BIG GEORGE COAL, POWDER RIVER BASIN, WYOMING
(2019-05-10)Over the past two decades, coalbed methane (CBM) has become one of the major unconventional gas resources in the US, Canada, Australia, and other countries. Despite substantial advances in CBM exploitation technologies, ... -
COLLECTING ARCHITECTURE: A CASE STUDY OF ANCIENT ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENTS HELD BY THE MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM
(2017-12-15)Museums care for millions of objects, and therefore cannot possibly put their entire collections on display. Often, it is the grander objects that are pushed into service to illustrate the past while the broken and ... -
Collecting During the Indian Craze: Analyzing the Harry L. George Collection of Native American Art
(2018-05)This thesis examines the concepts of primary and secondary markets utilized by artists and collectors of Native American art at the turn of the 20th century. This time period was coined by art historian Elizabeth Hutchinson ... -
Colorful Language: Investigating the Interpretation of the Storm Prediction Center's Convective Outlook by Broadcast Meteorologists and the US Public
(2020-07-30)Though severe weather forecast products, such as the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) convective outlook, have shown to be significantly more accurate than climatology at day-to-week time scales, tornadoes and severe thunderstorms ... -
Comanche Food Attitudes
(2019-05-10)Food has always been important to societies and cultures from everyday life and over generations. Yet, very few societies still eat the same way that they did 500 years ago. Today, indigenous people are challenged by settler ... -
Combining Classification and Bayesian Methods to Better Model Drug Abuse
(2018-12)Illicit drug use in the United States has shown no signs of abating, and the morbidity from drug abuse has risen sharply over the last several years. This is primarily due to a rise in the abuse of opioids, including ... -
Combining Text Analysis and Concept Mapping for Conceptual Model Development
(2020-05)The Rio Grande/Río Bravo River (RGB) stretches through Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Mexico before it reaches the Gulf of Mexico, spanning a politically, socio-economically, and environmentally diverse region. Management ... -
Combustion Characteristics of Three-component Fuel Blends in a Porous Media Burner at Lean Conditions
(2017-05)The increasing energy demand and the growing concern over the environmental impact caused by the combustion of fossil fuels require the development of effective alternative fuel sources. Biodiesels and bio-alcohols are ... -
Community Vulnerability Perspectives on Infrastructure Network Resilience Decision Making
(2019-05-10)Critical interdependent infrastructure networks such as water distribution, natural gas pipeline, electricity power, communication and transportation systems provide the essential necessities for societies and their ... -
Community-Based Archives, Museums and Language Revitalization: A Case Study From The Wichita And Affiliated Tribes In Anadarko, Oklahoma
(2018)The last fluent speaker of the Wichita language passed away in 2016. According to many common language vitality scales in linguistics, the Wichita language would be considered extinct. However, the discourse about this has ... -
Community-Level Impacts of Wind Power in Oklahoma
(2017-08)Wind power development in Oklahoma has expanded rapidly in the past decade, going from no installed capacity to producing over 20 percent of the state’s energy. Given the industry’s rapid development, there has been mixed ... -
Compact Antenna Test Range for mmWave Metrology Applications
(2024-05-10)With finite supply and increasing demand, the RF frequency spectrum is highly saturated with signals. There is an urgent need to design and implement antennas that operate at higher frequencies for applications such as 5G ... -
A comparative analysis of population dislocation models for multi-objective community resilience optimization
(2019-08-01)The importance of community resilience has been demonstrated by the large amount of human and economic losses from hazard events worldwide. The ability of a community to be able to recover from an event of this nature is ... -
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF QUANTUM COMPRESSIVE IMAGING IN LOW PHOTON REGIME BY CONSIDERING PHOTON STATISTICS
(2016-06-22)Compressive Imaging has been an extensively researched area inoptical imaging, object tracking,satellite applications,etc. There are many signalrecovery methods and comparative analyses of different algorithms ... -
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKS (SDN) AND CONVENTIONAL NETWORKS USING ROUTING PROTOCOLS
(2017-05)Conventional routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, EIGRP and BGP have a very rigid and intricate system thus narrowing the adaptability of networks to the ever changing Internet, the emergence of Software Defined Networking ... -
Comparative analysis of survey methodologies for population-level studies of Texas horned lizards (Phrynosoma cornutum)
(2023-12-15)Texas horned lizards (Phrynosoma cornutum) are classified by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation as a Tier 1 Species of Greatest Conservation Need and have similar designations throughout their range. Updated ... -
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF USER-CELL ASSOCIATION METHODS FOR MILIMETER WAVE MASSIVE MIMO BY DEVELOPING A SYSTEM LEVEL SIMULATOR FOR HETNETS
(2017)Massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) base station deployments and millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum utilization have been identified as promising disruptive technologies, along with ultra-dense Heterogeneous ...