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Fracture characterization and analysis along the Blaine Escarpment of northwestern Oklahoma
(2021-05-14)Detailed fracture mapping and analysis along the Blaine Escarpment of northern Oklahoma demonstrates that zones of deformation previously assigned to solution collapse and desiccation failure appears to play a role but may ... -
FRACTURING OPTIMIZATION BASED ON DYNAMIC CONDUCTIVITY
(2016)This thesis presents a systematic approach to evaluate and optimize production performance of fractured wells in tight oil formations. Underperformed hydraulically fractured wells have been widely reported; poor design is ... -
Fragmentación y marginalidad del sujeto femenino en cinco obras de Juan Radrigán
(2023-05-12)El teatro de Juan Radrigán se presenta como una evidencia de la realidad chilena durante los años de la dictadura militar vivida en Chile bajo el control del General Augusto Pinochet. Dentro de las obras teatrales de ... -
A FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPING PROPOSALS BY SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR FOR DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL INDIA
(2018-08)Billions of people in developing and underdeveloped countries currently lack access to basic services and are living in poverty. One of the main reasons is unavailability or limited basic resource (economic, technology, ... -
Framework for Rating Construction Programs
(2019-12-13)The internet and various print media offer a variety of ordinal ranking systems for colleges and universities. These rankings are readily available to everyone and offer a simplistic way to differentiate universities. ... -
The Frankfurt Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus’ Impact on its Prominent Jewish Thinkers: Religious Action, Responses to Modernity, and Thinking Beyond Movements
(2023-12-15)This thesis analyzes the works of multiple prominent figures who attended the Frankfurt Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus in order to find recurring themes indicating a common influence of the Lehrhaus upon these figures. The first ... -
Freedom and Restraint: A Self-Control Perspective on Political Ideology
(2024-05-10)Within the United States the topic of political ideology is an evolving and complex matter. The goal of this thesis is to examine an understudied area within this topic – the impact that self-control has on political ... -
Frequency-agile filtering antennas for S-band and X-band applications
(2023-05-12)Multi-functional, highly flexible, and tightly integrated Radio-Frequency Front-Ends (RFFEs) are at the forefront of the current developments to improve the performance of next-generation wireless RF systems. In the past ... -
Frictional Properties of Fault Gouge in HIgh Velocity/Long Distance Shear Experiments
(2016-05-14)The present objective is the characterization of the dynamic friction and seismic stability of fault gouge in high-velocity/long-distance shear experiments. The study has two parts based on the gouge source: A) Reservoir ... -
From Home Missions to Social Activism: A Comparative Study of Southern Methodist and Southern Baptist Women during the Progressive Era
(2018-08-02)Evangelical women in the United States have historically engaged in social activism through home missions. Southern Methodist and Southern Baptist women represent two contrasting groups that organized during the Progressive ... -
From it to you: An autoethnographic journey with Chinese users of German in Germany
(2016-08)There are currently several hundred thousand Chinese students studying abroad, yet knowledge about their experiences is mostly limited to anecdote and caricature. This autoethnography provides a more authentic account based ... -
FROM PHENOMENOLOGY OF LANGUAGE TO A THEORY OF SOCIOLOGICAL PRAXIS: PERCEPTION, IDEOLOGY, AND MEANING IN MULTIMODAL LINGUISTIC DISCOURSE
(2016-05)Linguistics has prioritized the auditory mode of transmission in language at the expense of written forms and their relevance to the social construction of meaning and identity. Due to the privilege of spoken language as ... -
From Red Dirt to Red State: Oklahoma and the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972-1982
(2016-05-14)This thesis details the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) debate in Oklahoma from 1972 to 1982. It is a multifaceted story of how both local and national factors, race, religion, family ties, gender norms, politics, and feminism ... -
From the Graveyard Shift to the Benzene Plume: Visualizing Embodied Work Experience at the Former B.F. Goodrich Tire Factory in Miami, Oklahoma
(2023-05-12)From the time of its construction in 1944, to its eventual closure on February 28, 1986, the B.F. Goodrich Tire Factory in Miami, Oklahoma has played an important role in the community. During its 40-year lifetime, it was ... -
FROM “BOTTOMLESS BASKET” TO “BEAUTIFUL BANGLADESH”: TOURISM ADVERTISING AS PUBLIC DIPLOMACY TOOL
(2017-05)This study measures the attitude toward Bangladesh, its people and its government among a group of international respondents from 40 different countries before and after watching a television commercial. This commercial, ... -
FULL ANISOTROPIC MODEL FOR SIMULATING THE INFRARED REFLECTION ABSORPTION SPECTRA (IRRAS) OF SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS (SAMS) FROM ALL-ATOM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS
(2020-05-29)It is important to understand the internal molecular structure of molecular monolayers because that determines the physical and chemical properties of their surface. Infrared spectroscopy is a powerful method to measure ... -
Functional Analysis of Duplicated NF-YB Genes in Photoperiod-Dependent Flowering
(2018-05)The heterotrimeric transcription factor NUCLEAR FACTOR Y (NF-Y) regulates photoperiod-dependent flowering and is composed of NF-YA, NF-YB, and NF-YC subunits. In higher plants, such as Arabidopsis thaliana, whole genome ... -
Functional Impairment, Marital Quality, and Their Effects on Marital Dissolution
(2016-05-13)Numerous studies show evidence that personal health affects marital relationships, and therefore, marital dissolution. However, little work examines the effects of functional impairment on marital dissolution. Moreover, ...