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Determinants of Self-Reported Fatigue with Aging
(2021-08-05)Purpose: To determine factors affecting the presence of self-reported fatigue in middle-aged and older individuals. Some of the factors investigated include age, sex, cortisol levels, health status, education level, stress, ... -
DETERMINATION OF SHALE ANISOTROPIC POROVISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES FROM THREE-POINT BEAM BENDING TEST
(2017-05-12)Permeability is an extremely important property of shale. It is essential to know permeability as it can aid engineers in developing drilling and production strategies and help executives make important financial decisions. ... -
Determination of SHmax using drilling induced fractures and focal mechanism
(2023-07)Knowledge of in-situ stress is essential to well development technologies such as wellbore stability, hydraulic fracturing, well spacing design, and the monitoring of induced seismicity. As energy exploration has become ... -
Determining the Feasibility of Best Available Treatment Versus Line Extension for Radionuclide Contamination in the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma Jurisdiction Area
(2019-05-10)This project aims to compare best available treatment (BAT) options to a line extension, therefore, presenting residents within the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma (KTO) jurisdictional area with the most effective, in terms of ... -
Detoxifying the English Classroom: Critical Conversations of Systemic Racism, Perpetuated Power, and the White Woman Teacher
(2019-12-14)This thesis introduces historical research on the origins and purpose of education, Critical Whiteness Studies, and Critical Race Theory and places them in conversation with each other to decenter power in Whiteness in the ... -
Developing a Composite Mycelium-Glass Brick Unit
(2019)There is an increased need to find sustainable building materials for the construction industry as we face challenges such as, global warming, fast depletion of natural resources and fossil fuels. It is difficult to achieve ... -
Developing a Water Balance Model to Estimate Consumptive Use in the Southeast Watershed Planning Region of Oklahoma
(2020-05-08)With the passage of the Water for 2060 Act, Oklahoma established a statewide goal of consuming no more freshwater in 2060 than was consumed in 2012. However, there currently does not exist a quantifiable method to estimate ... -
Developing Affordable Smart Solutions for Police Reporting
(2018-08-02)Due to the high costs of many eCitation systems currently on the market, many police agencies are still using pen and paper to fill out their citations. This traditional citation method may be cost effective. However, ... -
DEVELOPING AN ALGORITHM INTEGRATING VOICE AND IMAGING ANALYSIS TO RECOGNIZE FACIAL FEATURES AND DEFICIENCIES AFTER ORAL SURGERY
(2024-05-10)According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), oral cancer is one of several major types of head and neck cancer (HNCs) and affects approximately 54,000 individuals in the United States each year. Recognized risk ... -
Developing an Algorithm to Identify Secondary Incidents
(2018)Highways are the most frequently used means of transportation in today’s world and the leading source of travel mishaps. Crashes or incidents on highways—both primary and secondary—constrain highway capacity, threaten ... -
Developing and Testing an Ecologically Valid Fitness Test in Suburban SWAT Operators
(2017-12-15)Developing and Testing an Ecologically Valid Fitness Test in Suburban SWAT Operators: 10 tactical athletes (SWAT operators) were tested to develop the validity of a physical fitness test that closely mirrored their physical ... -
Developing Comprehensive Training on LGBT Issues in the Classroom
(2021-05-16)Social studies educators hold an important role in shaping the ideas their students have about society and what we owe to each other. Because of this, it is crucial that we model how to treat LGBT individuals with respect ... -
Development and assessment of constrained reinforcement learning-based controller for building demand response
(2023-12-15)Recent advancements in model-free control strategies, such as reinforcement learning (RL) have led to more practical and scalable solutions for building energy system controls These strategies do not require complex models ... -
Development and characterization of advanced nanocomposites with enhanced mechanical and thermal properties
(2023-05-12)The mechanical and thermal properties of composites made of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), glass micro-balloons (GmBs), and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were investigated in this thesis. The objective of this study was to determine ... -
Development and characterization of injectable biocompatible hyaluronic acid hydrogels for potential brain aneurysm blockage and vascular regeneration
(2022-08-04)Brain aneurysms are blood vessel wall deformations that affect 240 million people worldwide and their rupture causes the death of a fourth of the patients each year. Current brain aneurysm treatments, like surgical clips ... -
Development and implementation of a wetlands volunteer monitoring pilot program for Oklahoma
(2000)Due to limited public and private manpower,citizens have become valuable tools for collecting environmental data. Currently over 700 volunteer environmental monitoring programs in the United States are actively collecting ... -
Development and Initial Validation of an Inventory of State Epistemic Curiosity: Distinguishing the Interest and Deprivation Dimensions
(2023-12-15)The scholarly literature on epistemic curiosity has predominantly taken a trait-based perspective despite theory espousing its importance as a cognitive-motivational state relevant to learning, achievement, and creativity. ... -
Development and Simulation of a Novel Guidance System for Quadrotors Flying in a Contested Environment
(2019-08-01)Due to their accessibility, quadrotors are used as testbeds for guidance, navigation, and control systems and have been used for a wide variety of applications. These applications range from commercial aerial photography ... -
Development and testing of an FPGA-controlled switched-integrator current amplifier for use in scanning tunnelling microscopy
(2023)The scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) is a very powerful analytic tool capable of achieving atomic resolution. Unfortunately, the STM is restricted to samples that are sufficiently conductive to allow adequate tunneling ... -
Development Length of 0.6 in. Prestressing Strands in Precast, Prestressed Calcium Sulfoaluminate Cement Concrete
(2016-12-16)Calcium sulfoaluminate cement is a very rapid setting, hydraulic cement that releases approximately half as much carbon dioxide during production as conventional portland cement. Calcium sulfoaluminate cement produces ...