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Qualifying Qatar's Sports Investments as Levers of Subtle Power
(2021)Qatar has recently risen from relative obscurity and ascended to a role as a larger regional power, with greater geopolitical ambitions still. One major part of this rise has been Qatar’s recent heavy investment into sport, ... -
Quality Comparison of Three Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) Printers at Different Cost Levels
(2019-12)The purpose of this study was to better define how quality in terms of surface quality, dimensional accuracy, consistency/repeatability, and total build time vary based upon 3D printers in different cost levels. One FDM ... -
Quantification of nanoparticle interactions with the Nanoparticle Clearance System
(2020-05-08)The goal of nanomedicine is to target therapeutic and diagnostic agents to target tissues. However, there are multiple physiological barriers which prevent nanoparticles from reaching the desired destination in the body. ... -
QUANTIFICATION OF NON-IDEAL MIXING IN SODIUM DI (2-ETHYLHEXYL) SULFOSUCCINATE – ANIONIC SURFACTANT MIXTURES
(2017-05)HLD equation was first introduced by Salager [1], however for predicting the HLD parameters from known parameters of a surfactant in a binary anionic-anionic mixture, Acosta [8] suggested linear mixing rules which can be ... -
Quantification of recovery factors in downspaced shale wells
(2016-12-16)Well spacing optimization in horizontal multi-fractured wells is the center of field development. Unconventional reservoirs due to the low matrix permeability cannot produce without the help of hydraulic fracturing. Unlike ... -
Quantifying and Mitigating Debris-Induced Bias in Radar Measurements of Tornadic Winds
(2021)The centrifuging of lofted tornadic debris is known to cause bias in Doppler radar measurements of tornado wind speeds. Debris presence in a radar volume is associated with anomalous radial divergence, underestimation of ... -
Quantifying Crises’ Effects on Organizational Reputation
(2017-05-13)Crisis communication research has been significantly advanced over the past 50 years with models and theories. But it lacks a method for assigning objective, numerical values to how severe a crisis is on an organization’s ... -
QUANTIFYING HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY IN MINE DRAINAGE PASSIVE TREATMENT SYSTEM VERTICAL FLOW BIOREACTORS
(2016-12)Heavy industrial mining has occurred in the United States for more than 100 years, and in many cases, has led to large-scale environmental degradation, especially from historical operations where mining occurred prior to ... -
Quantifying Precipitation Efficiency and Drivers of Excessive Precipitation in Post-Landfall Hurricane Harvey
(2019)Hurricane Harvey produced widespread rainfall amounts over 1000 mm in portions of Southeast Texas, including Houston from 26-31 August 2017. The highly efficient and prolonged warm rain processes associated with Harvey ... -
Quantifying Solar-Powered Removal of Aqueous and Gaseous Sulfide in a Mine Water Passive Treatment System
(2018-12-14)Passive treatment systems can improve water quality for mine water discharges. However, some process units, like vertical flow bioreactors (VFBRs), may produce excess sulfide, which can be a source of nuisance odors and ... -
Quantifying spatial-temporal stability to drought in a semi-arid shortgrass prairie ecosystem
(2022-05)Drought is known to cause negative ecological impacts in grasslands, with areas prone to drought expected to experience increases in both severity and frequency in the coming years. Cimarron County, Oklahoma is located at ... -
Quantifying the Impact of Asphaltene Precipitation on Sandstone Wettability
(2017-12)Asphaltene precipitation, and the resulting decline in oil production, has for long been identified as a severe problem in oil reservoirs. The deposition of these high molecular weight oil fractions in pore spaces have ... -
Quantitative Analysis of Social Media Sensitivity to Natural Disasters
(2015)The use of social media platforms such as Facebook or Twitter increased exponentially over the last years. They have become a major tool for people to communicate, and for news media to relay their content. In parallel ... -
Quantitative Content Analysis of the Impact of Utilizing the "Virtual-Object" on the Engineering Students' Pedagogy
(2020-07-30)The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of utilizing the specially designed "Virtual-Object" and project-based learning instruction in the Thermodynamics course on engineering students' performance. Rubric ... -
QUANTITATIVE CT IMAGE FEATURE ANALYSIS FOR PREDICTING TUMOR RESPONSE TO CHEMOTHERAPY AT EARLY STAGE
(2016-12-16)In gynecologic oncology, ovarian cancer is the second leading cancer with highest mortality rate. Since most of the ovarian cancer patients are diagnosed at advanced stage occurred with metastatic tumors, chemotherapy is ... -
Quasi-isotropic low size, weight, and power tag for remotely tracking birds using weather radar
(2021-05-14)Modern tracking technology has the potential to revolutionize the field of ornithology. However, some tracking technologies such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) are limited in read range while others such as GPS ... -
Quasi-Omnidirectional Broadband Anti-Reflective Surface of Multi-Level Sub-Wavelength Structures
(2020-12-18)The demand to remove reflections from surfaces has been a topic of interest for many decades. Accordingly, many methods and techniques have been exploited to achieve the optimum design, which is to impart no reflections ... -
Question-Answering for Segment Retrieval on Podcast Transcripts
(2022-08)Podcasting has rapidly ascended as one of the primary forms of spoken-word media in the 21st century. The Spotify Podcast Dataset has compiled transcripts of over 100,000 podcast episodes, making it one of the largest ... -
Questioning the Nature of Reality: The Emancipatory Politics of Westworld (2016-)
(2021-05)The myth of the American West is rooted in a visual language of commodification, nationalism, and violence. The Western film genre codifies this aesthetic representation of space; it naturalizes the United States’ continuing ... -
Race, Environment, and Masculinity in Richmond's WWII Shipyards
(2018-05-11)The Kaiser company shipyards in Richmond, California, the largest shipyards in the world for the duration of World War II, employed workers from across America and from around the world. New technological advances and ...