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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 ... -
RACE, GENDER AND HEALTH LITERACY IN THE MEDICAL ENCOUNTER: A TEST OF CULTURAL HEALTH CAPITAL AND STATUS CHARACTERISTICS THEORY
(2016-05-13)The doctor-patient relationship is a form of social support that influences patients’ health. Doctor-patient communication impacts doctor-patient relationships and ultimately patients’ health outcomes. Physicians’ communication ... -
Racial diversity in University of Oklahoma student organizations: the case for increasing informal interactional diversity within siloed institutions
(2015)Literature suggests racial diversity is a common good for in groups and out groups and further suggests a particular type of diversity, informal interactional diversity, has the greatest benefits. This research explores ... -
Racism and Resistance: Contextualizing Sorry to Bother You in the Neoliberal Moment
(2019-05-11)The goal of this paper is to discuss the historical and theoretical framework of neoliberalism through three films that place the Black body at the center of neoliberal economic and ideological systems: Sorry to Bother You ... -
Radar analysis of the physics of extreme rainfall events
(2020)Extreme precipitation events pose a threat to life, property, and economic growth throughout the United States and across the world. Although extensive research has focused on improving understanding of extreme precipitation ... -
Radar and Thermodynamic Analysis of the 6 April 2018 Monroe, LA Tornadic Supercell
(2022-05)This case study analyzes a tornadic supercell observed in northeast Louisiana as part of the Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment Southeast (VORTEX-SE) on April 6—7 2018. Two mobile research ... -
Radar Cross Section Analysis of Tornadic Debris
(2016-12-16)Weather radar is a powerful tool for detecting hazardous weather that may impact citizens. Among these dangerous weather phenomena, tornadoes have a high potential for destruction of property and loss of life due to its ... -
Radiation-Induced Acoustic Imaging System Development and Applications
(2019)This thesis reports the development of three different radiation induced acoustic imaging systems excited by a pulsed laser, X-ray, and electric field respectively. Firstly, a laser induced photoacoustic imaging system for ... -
Raman spectroscopy and its applications to ice-sediment-brine matrices in recurring slope lineae on Mars
(2020-05-08)Raman spectroscopy is an ideal tool to analyze the geochemical make up of various compounds, be they solid, liquid, gas, or a combination of multiple phases. This research seeks to determine how changes in both temperature ... -
Rapid elemental analysis using X-ray fluorescence and laser induced breakdown spectroscopy and their applications in the Mississippian Meramec, Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma
(2020)X-Ray fluorescence (XRF) and Laser Induced Breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) are rapid elemental analysis techniques for rock cores and cuttings. Elemental analysis is useful in understanding geochemical, mineralogical, ... -
Rapid Permian exhumation of the Montagne Noire dome recorded in provenance of Upper Paleozoic clastics in the Graissessac-Lodève Basin, France
The Graissessac-Lodeve Basin (southern France) preserves a thick and exceptionally complete record of continental sedimentation spanning Late Carboniferous through Late Permian time. This section records the localized ...