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A Ventilation Analysis of Bruce Goff's Bavinger House
(2019-05-10)Bruce Goff’s Bavinger house was deemed a peculiar marvel during its early years after construction. Originally completed in 1955, the architectural style was considered far outside the box, unorthodox and unconventional. ... -
Verification of 10-Meter Wind Forecasts from NSSL-WRF in Predicting Severe Wind-Producing MCSs
(2016-12-16)Predicting convective winds associated with mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) remains a major challenge for operational severe weather forecasters. To assess the performance of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model ... -
Verification of the Tornado and Lightning Plumes and Evaluation of a New Kernel for the Tornado and Lightning Plumes
(2020-07-30)Though tornado forecasts have been of interest much longer, the National Weather Service (NWS) has been issuing tornado alerts and warnings for more than 50 years. On 1 October 2007, the NWS began issuing storm-based ... -
A Verilog Implementation of Weighted Sum Multiobjective Optimization for use in Cognitive Radar
(2021-12-17)As wireless technologies continue to become more ubiquitous in a variety of different applications, the electromagnetic spectrum will become increasingly saturated. Billions of wireless devices that utilize the spectrum ... -
Vertebrate fossil associations and taphonomy in the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Cimarron County, Oklahoma
(2007)The purpose of this project is to evaluate fossil distribution within three dinosaur quarries in the Morrison Formation, excavated in the 1940s, in the panhandle of Oklahoma. The sedimentology and stratigraphy of the ... -
A Veteran Social Studies Teacher's Journey To Meet The Needs Of Her Students
(2023-05)This autoethnography discusses the ways in which I, a veteran and ambitious social studies teacher, can evolve as a teacher and learner to meet all the needs of her students. The literature shows that being a social ... -
Video Outpainting using Conditional Generative Adverarial Networks
(2021)Recent advancements in machine learning and neural networks have pushed the boundaries of what computers can achieve. Generative adversarial networks are a specific type of neural network that have proved wildly successful ... -
Views From the Saddle: Empathy and Romanticization in Oral Narrative and Multispecies Communication
(2024-05-10)In the summer of 2023, I traveled to Wyoming to conduct fieldwork while working on a dude ranch as a wrangler. The research I conducted had two particular focuses: the learned narratives that wranglers shared with guests ... -
Virtual Measurement of Valve Performance and its Application in Energy Efficiency Improvements
(2018-12)For heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning engineers, the measurement of system performance is a vital step in ensuring that the system in use is functioning at its optimal functionality. The measurement of water flow ... -
VIRTUAL REALITY AND ITS IMPACT ON TRAVEL JOURNALISM AUDIENCES: A STUDY OF PRESENCE, CREDIBILITY, AND DESTINATION IMAGE THAT CAN INFLUENCE VR USER ATTITUDES ABOUT A TRAVEL DESTINATION
(2018-12-14)Virtual reality technology is becoming more common in journalism storytelling as the technology develops. However, the technology can require highly technical skills to operate, compose, and produce a product, which is not ... -
Viscosity of Shale Gas
(2017)Unconventional energy resources, including coal beds, tight gas sands, and shales, have become an ever-increasing factor in the North American gas supply. In these formations, the basic transport properties of the fluids ... -
Visibility Estimation from Camera Images Using Deep Learning
(2023-08-04)Atmospheric visibility is an important and complex meteorological variable that directly affects safe and reliable transportation. Specifically, declining visibility can pose an increased risk to automotive, aviation, and ... -
Visions from Revelation
(2020-05-08)Visions from Revelation is a sketch of Revelation 4 portrayed through piano and fixed media. The pianism makes tribute to several composers. Eleven Echoes of Autumn by George Crumb influenced the inside-of-the-piano ... -
Visual and Musical Disability Narratives in How to Train Your Dragon
(2024-05-11)In recent decades, the field of disabilities studies has shifted from solely a medical outlook to a more rounded approach of how disability is constructed culturally and socially. With this change, disability scholars aim ... -
Visual Sovereignty and Indigenous Film Festivals: A Case Study on The Native Crossroads Film Festival
(2019-05-10)This thesis is an ethnographic documentation of the Native Crossroads Film Festival, an annual multi-day cultural event in Norman, Oklahoma that features a selection of indigenous films. I argue throughout this thesis that ... -
Visualizing Data in Traditional Text Layouts with Application to Classical Latin
(2017)Scholarship in linguistics, library science, journalism, and classics has long de- pended upon reading and analyzing text in traditional printed formats. Increasingly, manual and automatic text processing techniques are ... -
The Voice of A Girl Becoming: A Solipsist's Collection of Creative Nonfiction
(2021-05-14)The Voice of A Girl Becoming: A Solipsist’s Collection of Creative Nonfiction is a collection of eleven creative nonfiction stories and essays. Written to show how the material I have engaged with as a graduate student ... -
Voices of a female white/non-white Brazilian Educator
(2019-12-06)In this thesis, the author employs testimonio to present her voices as a female Brazilian educator who has always been considered white in her home country, and who comes to study at a university in the United States of ... -
Volunteer Motivation and Retention in a Nonprofit Organization
(2019-05-03)This study examines the functional motivation to volunteerism behavior and hierar-chical leisure to constraint of individuals volunteering in a public service education non-profit organization. The study of motivation is ... -
Was that Rudeness or Racism? Exploring the Moderating Effect of Attribution to Racism on Experiences of Incivility
(2022-08)Incivility is a typical way that subtle discrimination manifests in academic contexts and may be a key contributor to racial and ethnic disparities in student wellbeing and achievement. Research testing ethnic identity as ...