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USE OF INTELLIGENT PUMPING SYSTEM TO DEVELOP RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION
(2018-05-11)With the advancement in drilling and production technologies, deeper and more challenging formations are drilled every day. A pivotal part of sustaining this advancement is to permanently monitor the reservoir. While PDG ... -
Use of low-resolution burned area products and implications for fire risk assessment within the wildland-urban interface
(2019)The impacts of wildfires are socially, economically and ecologically vast and these impacts are often thought to be intensified within the wildland-urban interface (WUI) where structures intermingle with wildland vegetation. ... -
The Use of Recycled Material Backfills to Mitigate the Effects of Expansive Soils on Subterranean Structures
(2016)The extreme annual weather patterns of the Midwest United States have created a demand for basements as emergency shelters in both residential and commercial structures. However, with the majority of the Midwest experiencing ... -
Use of social media for sourcing and verification: Journalistic practices in Pakistan
(2023-12-15)The adoption of social media by journalists is in transitional phase, but the dependency on it for sourcing can have significant implications for the profession. With more reliance on social media for sourcing, journalists ... -
USE OF THE HLD EQUATION TO DETERMINE SURFACTANT ADSORPTION AT SOLID SURFACES
(2016-07-08)The objective of this work is to develop and refine a mathematical model based on the fundamentals of the hydrophilic-lipophilic deviation equation in order to describe and predict surfactant adsorption onto reservoir rocks ... -
A User-Friendly Wrapper for DSIDES (Decision Support in the Design of Engineering Systems)
(2023-11-15)When dealing with complex systems, we need to consider that these systems have behaviors that are hard to predict or control, and uncertainties are always present since computational models are abstracts of reality. It is ... -
Using 3D Seismic Attributes to Investigate Mud Losses in a Fluvial-Deltaic Sand: An Example From the Oliver Sandstone
(2017)Drilling operations in an actively developed basin in Wyoming can experience large quantities of mud losses in a shallow zone along the intermediate (vertical) section of the wellbore. These losses can negatively impact ... -
USING ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES TO INTEGRATE THE SOCIAL AND MEDICAL MODELS OF DISABILITY
(2017)The medical model of disability views the challenges and solutions to disability via medical terms. Within the social model of disability (SMD), impairment is the physical condition specific to a person, whereas disability ... -
USING DATA ANALYTICS ON DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS TO PREDICT THE ULTIMATE RECOVERY FACTORS FOR DIFFERENT DRIVE MECHANISMS OF GULF OF MEXICO OIL FIELDS
(2017-05-12)The ultimate recovery factor is strongly affected by petrophysical parameters, engineering data, structures, and drive mechanisms. The knowledge of the recovery factor is needed for multiple decision makings and it should ... -
Using Inexpensive Software-Defined Radios as GPS Receivers in a Ground-Based Augmentation System
(2022-12-16)Ground Based Augmentation Systems (GBAS) are used to augment Global Positioning Systems (GPS) signals to make the position solutions significantly more accurate and precise. The systems have been studied and demonstrated ... -
Using Machine Learning Applications and HREFv2 to Enhance Hail Prediction for Operations
(2019-08)In this thesis, I demonstrate how hail prediction can be improved through post-processing numerical weather prediction (NWP) data from the new High-Resolution Ensemble Forecast system version 2 (HREFv2) with machine learning ... -
Using Machine Learning to Improve the NSSL's Warn-On-Forecast System's Prediction of Thunderstorm Location
(2023-08-04)Deep learning (DL) models have become immensely popular in recent years, with many models creating accurate and high-skill predictions for a wide range of atmospheric phenomena. Using DL models for predicting convection ... -
Using Machine Learning to Predict Damaging Straight-line Convective Winds
(2016-08-12)Thunderstorms, including straight-line (non-tornadic) winds, cause an average of over 100 deaths and $10 billion of insured damage per year in the United States. In the past decade machine learning has led to significant ... -
USING MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION TO STUDY BEHAVIOR OF HYDROCARBON FLUID
(2019-08)The purpose of this thesis is to study hydrocarbon fluid behavior with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. In the past two decades, MD simulation has been proved to be a reliable tool in the study of oil and natural gas ... -
Using Novelty Seeking Reward Evolution Strategies to Train Generative Adversarial Networks
(2018-12-14)Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a subclass of deep generative models that aim to implicitly learn to model a data distribution. While GANs have gained wide research attention, and achieved much success, when ... -
Using Radiosonde Observations to Assess The 'Three-Ingredients' Method to Forecast QLCS Mesovortices
(2022-08)Quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) mesovortices have a propensity to produce impactful severe weather outcomes, including tornadoes and enhanced straight-line wind damage. Despite advances in understanding the origins ... -
Using Techno-Economic Assessments to Determine the Degree of Centralization in Municipal Wastewater Infrastructure in the Context of Urban Environments
(2019-12-13)Rapid urbanization, aging infrastructure, high energy demand, and water scarcity challenge the strong reliance and sustainability of centralized municipal wastewater infrastructure. On the other hand, decentralized ... -
USING THE INTEGRATIVE MODEL TO PREDICT INITIATION OR MAINTENANCE OF RECOMMENDED SLEEP BEHAVIOR IN COLLEGE STUDENTS
(2017-05-12)Introduction: Sleep deprivation is a serious public health concern in the United States that often goes unnoticed, particularly among college students and young adults. Government initiatives such as Healthy People 2020 ... -
Using the Integrative Model to Predict Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption Among Adults Attempting Weight Loss in Southern Oklahoma
(2016-05-14)Adult obesity is a serious problem in the United States as approximately 68.5% of adults are overweight or obese. Obesity is caused by many factors including lifestyle behaviors, psychological and physiological circumstances, ... -
USING THE INTEGRATIVE MODEL TO PREDICT VEGETABLE SUBGROUP CONSUMPTION AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS
(2016)Although eating the recommended amount of vegetables is associated with many health benefits, vegetable consumption is low among college students in the United States. “Vegetable consumption” is a behavioral category, ...