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Diego Rivera as a Jewish Root-Seeker: Art, Identity Politics, and the "Downtrodden Masses"
(2022-05-14)The Mexican muralist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) was Jewish in his imagination only. During the 1930s, the artist invented a noble Sephardi lineage dating back to the seventeenth-century philosopher, Uriel Acosta (1585-1640). ... -
Differences in predicted external training load values across an NCAA Division I men’s basketball season
(2023-08-04)Tracking and monitoring of external load is an important consideration for sport performance practitioners. Despite its relative importance, there is very little research surrounding the external load demands of NCAA ... -
Differential Effects of Informing and Framing on Beneficence in Do-Not-Resuscitate Order (DNR)
(2023-08-04)Empirical comparisons based on ethical standards have been neglected in end-of-life decision making research. I have compared two persuasion techniques (i.e., informing and framing) on whether they protect or promote ... -
Differentiation in the Secondary English Classroom
(2017-12)This study seeks to show the possible positive learning outcomes gained by the use of differentiated instruction. My methods of differentiation included specializing content using the different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, ... -
Diffraction imaging using Geometric-mean Reverse-Time Migration and Common Reflection Surface
(2017-12)Diffracted waves contain a great deal of valuable information about small-scale subsurface structure such as faults, pinch-outs, karsts and fractures, which are tightly related to hydrocarbon accumulation and production. ... -
Digging Deep into the Summer Activities at Bull Creek (34BV176): A Late Paleoindian Site in the Southern Plains
(2022-12-16)The Bull Creek site (34BV176), located along a tributary of the Beaver River in the Oklahoma Panhandle, belongs to a short list of late Paleoindian open-habitation camps. Events at Bull Creek are superimposed on one another. ... -
Digital predistortion of wideband radar waveforms
(2021-12-17)As demands for increased radio frequency system performance have grown over time, sufficiently mitigating the distortion introduced by high power amplifiers has proven to be a major challenge to overcome. Digital predistortion ... -
Digital Radar Implementation With System Response Compensation Through Amplitude Predistortion
(2016-12-16)Radars traditionally synthesize waveforms by using a variety of analog electronics. These analog components are collectively referred to as the analog chain. A typical electronic analog chain contains multiple components, ... -
Digital radar receiver design based on highly efficient bandpass sampling FPGA architecture
(2009)As digital electronics become faster and more efficient, it becomes possible to move the analog/digital interface in a radar downconversion system further towards the antenna. Instead of digitizing radar echoes at the end ... -
Dioxygen Evolution from Oxo-Ruthenium Complexes
(2020-12)Divestment from fossil fuels is necessary in order to lessen the impacts of climate change across the planet. One alternative to fossil fuels is hydrogen gas, which is utilized in syn gas and hydrogen fuel cells. However, ... -
Discourses of Division: An Ethnography of the Oklahoma Proud Boys
(2022-05-13)As a self-described group of "Western chauvinists," the Proud Boys have become lodged within the national consciousness because of their participation in historical and contemporary discourses concerned with fascism, ... -
Discovering Accessible Data Visualizations for People with ADHD
(2024-05-10)There have been many studies on understanding effective data visualizations regarding general users. However, we have a limited understanding on how people with ADHD comprehend data visualizations and how it might differ ... -
A DISLOCATION-BASED BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD TO MODEL PRESSURIZED FRACTURES
(2019)A significant portion of hydrocarbon and geothermal resources in the world, and especially in the United States, is unconventional. Some of the unconventional resources have special geological structures so that their ... -
Disorder and Unity in Bruno Mantovani's Bug for Solo Clarinet
(2021-05-14)Bruno Mantovani’s Bug (1999) for solo clarinet is a musical metaphor that depicts the disarray and disorientation caused by an imaginary computer malfunction. Historically, this piece parallels the anxiety surrounding the ... -
Disorder, Disorganization, and Delinquency: A Mediation Analysis of Environmental Disorder, Extra-Curricular Activities, and Delinquency from Early to Late Adolescence
(2022-05-13)According to the literature, youth violence, neighborhood crime rates, and early delinquency have been associated with vacant or abandoned housing, and adverse environmental and urban conditions (Jackson, Newsome, and Lynch ... -
Disparities within K-12 Educational Building Environments: A Framework for Designing Educational Spaces for Health & Wellbeing In and Out of the Classroom
(2024-05-10)Introduction: Students endure social, economic, and environmental impacts that affect their behavior, mental health, and cognitive development. Evidence-based research and design are required to provide proficient design ... -
The Dissonance between Democracy's Promise and Its Gendered Reality
(2018-12-14)In international development discourse and political science literature, there appears to be consensus that democratic governance contributes to gender equality. As a result, democracy and women’s rights are often articulated ... -
Distributed Energy Feedback Control for Demand Response Operations in Commercial HVAC Systems
(2021-08)The goal of this thesis is to identify methods to control a commercial Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system that results in precise control of the cooling coil load and the ability to prioritize the ... -
DISTRIBUTED MATRIX ANALYSIS AND COMPUTATION OVER NETWORKS
(2024-05-10)This thesis introduces a continuous-time distributed algorithm designed to address a range of matrix analysis and computation problems in networked systems. Focusing initially on the Local-Equation Local-Variable (LELV) ... -
Distributions and Bioaccumulation of Microcystins
(2022-05-13)Microcystins are hepatotoxins and tumor promotors, with various deleterious effects on plants as well. There are 270+ known congeners of the toxin microcystin, structural variants of the molecule. These hepatotoxins are ...