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Agency, Gender, and Constraint: Examining Shame in The Awakening
(2019-05)This thesis focuses on The Awakening by Kate Chopin and examines how shame constrains the performance of gender through the lens of Butler’s theory of gender performativity. Judith Butler claims that gender is the “practice ... -
AGILE: ARBITRARY GRID LOGISTIC REGRESSION USING INTEL SOFTWARE GUARD EXTENSIONS
(2016)Biomedical data are often collected and stored at different sites. How to take the most advantage of the data to provide better health care for patients and to contribute to academic research becomes more and more important ... -
Aging in Place with Smart Home Technology
(2019-12-13)This paper evaluates technologies currently available for aging in place and considerations that might limit homeowners from considering or using technology that would allow a homeowner to age in place or prolong the length ... -
AI BASED FAULT DIAGNOSIS IN EMERGING CELLULAR NETWORKS
(2019-08)Mobile cellular network operators spend nearly a quarter of their revenue on network management and maintenance. A significant portion of that budget, is spent on resolving faults diagnosed in the system that degrade or ... -
Air Force Museums and their Civilian Counterparts: Improving Both Sides of the Challenge Coin
(2018-05-11)The U.S. Air Force is a continuing entity in the fight for freedom across the world. It does its job in the best way it knows how, and in the process claims to celebrate heritage. The celebration of heritage does occur in ... -
Airline Demand Growth and Forecasting Using an Econometric Model: A Comparative Empirical Analysis Among Brazil, China and India
(2016-05-13)Aviation Industry is growing in an unprecedented pace in the twenty first century. Today, over 1000 commercial airlines operate more than 15,000 aircrafts, carrying 3.1billion people and 51.7m tons of freight every year. ... -
All-Weather Sense and Avoid (SAA) Radar Clutter Modeling and Control
(2020-12-18)The background of this thesis is related to the enhancement and optimization of the Pulsed-Doppler Radar sensor for the need of Detect and Avoid (DAA), or Sense and Avoid (SAA), for both weather and air-traffic (collision ... -
ALTERNATIVE SURFACTANT FORMULATION FOR NON-AQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID (NAPL) REMOVAL
(2016-05)Due to the inefficiency of the pump and treat method in removing hydrocarbon contamination from ground water, a new method called surfactant Enhanced Aquifer remediation (SEAR) has been developed. SEAR is just a chemical ... -
Amartya Sen’s Political Philosophy of Development and Micro-credit in Bangladesh
(2017-05-12)Amartya Sen (co-author with Jean Drèze) in An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (2013) seemingly glorifies the roles of non-government organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh’s better progress in many common aspects ... -
American Indian Access to Health Care Services in Oklahoma Post Affordable Care Act
(2016-12)The American Indian health system is difficult to navigate. American Indians have historically had a high rate of being in poverty, being uninsured, and poor access to care. Oklahomans overall also have a high uninsured ... -
American Indian painters of Oklahoma : artistic negotiation in the twentieth century.
(2005)This work discusses the emergence of easel painting as an art form in Oklahoma American Indian communities and the commoditization of American Indian art during the twentieth century. The lives and art of five Muscogee ... -
Amplitude-frequency tradeoffs in the active sensory and communication signal of a weakly electric fish
(2017-06)Animal communication signals play an important role in behavioral processes to ensure fitness and survivorship of individuals within a species. Weakly electric fish produce communication signals that could be among the ... -
An examination of the effects of rater training and individual prototypes on performance ratings
(2004)The performance appraisal process is often inaccurate due to various biases and psychometric errors. Rater training was developed in an attempt to familiarize raters with the dimensions used to judge performance and to ... -
An image of communication: theories of imaging in cognitive psychology
(1994)In an empirical study, visual breakpoints were created from a motion video presentation. These were then used, along with the original motion video presentation , in a memory test experiment testing for recall of abstract ... -
An integrated diagenetic and paleomagnetic study of the Haynesville Shale, Harrison County, Texas
(2013)An integrated diagenetic and paleomagnetic study of the Upper Jurassic Haynesville Shale was undertaken to determine the origin and timing of diagenetic events in this prolific shale-gas unit. Characterization of diagenesis ...