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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, ... -
Using the Travel Cost Method to Value Environmental Education in the State of Oklahoma
(2020-05-08)As a society, an integral part of improving environmental stewardship is accomplished through environmental education and training. Although public and private entities supported by grants and public funding provide a range ... -
Using TikTok as a Reflective Teaching Tool
(2023-05)The purpose of this paper is to better understand the current reflective teaching practices of in-service teachers and to determine whether TikTok may be an effective and sustainable reflective teaching tool. There has ... -
Using video games in the secondary English classroom for the teaching of writing and rhetorical skills
(2021)English Language Arts (ELA) teachers are searching for new and novel ways to engage students in classroom activities involving reading and learning reading/writing-related skills, such as rhetoric or the use of literary ... -
Using Young Adult Literature as the Cornerstone of Literacy: Pairing Young Adult Novels with the Classics
(2016-05-13)English classes are still relying on novels taught consistently since the eighties if not earlier. Though our students have changed drastically since that time, our teaching methods and texts have not. And now, only 20% ... -
UTILIZING A SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH FRAMEWORK TO ELICIT AFRICAN AMERICAN’S PERCEIVED CONTROL BELIEFS ABOUT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
(2018-08-02)African Americans’ Perceived Behavior Control (PBC) beliefs about physical activity were evaluated utilizing the Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) framework. Thirty one-on-one semi-structured ... -
Utilizing Flow Perfusion Bioreactor Systems as Novel Platforms for Cancer Research
(2023-08-04)Cancer remains a leading cause of death worldwide, with no signs of slowing down. In 2023 alone, the projected number of deaths from cancer is 600,000, with projected incidences at almost 2 million. Mortality rates have ... -
Validation of Portable Handheld X-Ray Fluorescence (PHXRF) on Stabilized Subgrade Projects for Construction Quality Control and Geotechnical Forensic Investigations
(2016-05-13)Problematic subgrade soils are often strengthened through pozzolanic reactions and/or cementing using various types of chemical stabilizers, such as lime, cement kiln dust, and fly ash. The amount of stabilizer needed for ... -
Vapor-Phase Adsorptive Separation of Bio-Oil Components Using Activated Carbon
(2018-12)Biofuels processes involve the upgrading of components produced by fractionation of cell wall biopolymers. However, the fractionation is not selective to high-value components, and separation is necessary. The use of ... -
VariantFlow: Interactive Storyline Visualization Using Force Directed Layout
(2016-08-12)The study of literature is changing dramatically by incorporating new opportu- nities that digital technology presents. Data visualization overturns the dynamic for literary analysis by revealing and displaying connections ... -
Variation in time averaging and taphonomic character of shell beds in Lake Tanganyika, Africa: Paleoenvironmental and stratigraphic implications of shell beds in rift lakes
(2018-05-11)Large regions of the littoral lake bottom along structural platforms in Lake Tanganyika, Africa, are carpeted with shell beds of late Holocene age. The viviparous gastropod Neothauma tanganyicense (Neothauma) is the lead ...