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Characterization of Gas Permeation in Polymeric Membrane
(2017)Polymers have been widely used in various industries in recent decades. One of the functions of polymers is to be employed as barriers against gas permeation. In this research, characterization of permeation in polymeric ... -
Characterization of Hydrophobic Nanoporous Particle Liquids for Energy Absorption
(2016-12)Recently, the development of hydrophobic nanoporous technologies has drawn increased attention, especially for the applications of energy absorption and impact protection. Although significant amount of research has been ... -
Characterization of Rotary Seals Through Identification of Performance Parameters
(2016)The oil and gas industry is one of the largest industries in the world and is an industry that everyday lives rely on, especially in the United States (U.S.). The constant need for technological advances is more critical ... -
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SYCAMORE FORMATION, VELMA FIELD, ARDMORE BASIN OKLAHOMA
(2019-05-10)The Velma field is located in the northwestern extent of the Ardmore Basin in southern Oklahoma. Historically the combined Sholem- Velma- Tatums field area is one of the top producing oil and gas conventional producing ... -
Characterizing Ferrihydrite Transformation Products in Near-Saturated Brine Environments
(2023-05)Ferrihydrite transformation pathways are critical in understanding iron cycling and mineral transformation processes in extraterrestrial systems such as those observed on Mars. While common throughout terrestrial near-surface ... -
Characterizing microbiome changes in the graduate student gut
(2016-08-16)Dysbiosis of the human microbiome is linked to human health problems, and as such, is a main concern of anthropological microbiome research. Analysis of how microbiomes change over time and under stress may reveal trends ... -
CHARACTERIZING THE BEHAVIOR OF CONCRETE CAST WITH TYPE K SHRINKAGE COMPENSATING CEMENT WHEN PLACED UNDER MECHANICAL RESTRAINT
(2018-05-12)The purpose of this research was to determine whether shrinkage-compensating concrete (SCC) made with Type K cement is capable of offsetting the effects of early age drying shrinkage, specifically when the concrete is acted ... -
Charles Kingsley as a romanticist /
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Child Care Quality and Foster Care Stability: A Time-to-Event Approach
(2017-12-13)Early Childcare and Education (ECE) frequently serve as the focus of efforts to improve the well-being of children in foster homes. This study uses archival data to explore the effects of ECE subsidy use, ECE type, and ECE ... -
Children's Theory of Mind and Their Friendship Quality
(2017)Friendships are an important context of development during the elementary school years, buffering children against bullying and victimization and promoting positive social development in many ways. However, not all children ... -
Choice and Patterns in Midwife Use in the United States
(2019-05-10)This study explores the factors that influence women’s decisions about their pregnancy and birth, what kinds of value and beliefs tend to suggest a preference towards midwives, and, demographically, which women are mostly ... -
Choices: an exploratory study of the decision-making behaviors of school superintendents
Decision-making practices of school superintendents have previously been studied in the context of decision-making in response to a program or initiative, identifying decision-making styles, and ethical decision-making. ... -
CIGARCoil: A New Algorithm for the Compression of DNA Sequencing Data
(2019-05-10)DNA sequencing machines produce tens of thousands to hundreds of millions of reads. Each read consists of letters from the alphabet X= {A, T, C, G, N} and varies in length between 30 to 120 characters and beyond. The DNA ... -
Circadian rhythm variation in endocrine biomarker responses to high-intensity interval training in college aged males
(2023-08-04)The purposes of this study were to: 1) to examine the effects of time of day on salivary testosterone (sal-T) and salivary cortisol (sal-C) concentrations following acute bouts of high intensity interval training (HIIT) ... -
Clara Luper: A Historical Example for Contemporary Teacher Activists
(2018-01)The purpose of this thesis is to provide contemporary teacher activists resisting against the racism of the New Jim Crow with a historical template for engaging in activism, through the biography of Clara Luper as a political ... -
CLASSICAL BALLET PRE-POINTE EDUCATION: AN ANALYSIS OF THE PEDAGOGY FOR THE TRAINING OF YOUNG DANCERS
(2016-05-13)The concept of preparing young female dancers for pointe work is not new to ballet education; however, attention to specific pre-pointe training has become more focused in recent years. Pre-pointe as a defined course of ... -
Classifying Wi-Fi from Raw Power Measurements Using a Neural Network Adapted from WaveNet
(2021-08-05)Research to identify coexisting wireless devices is becoming increasingly important, in part due to the yearly increase in internet users and wireless devices. Various machine learning algorithms, including neural networks, ... -
Climate Change Drives Divergent Outcomes for Stream Fishes in the Red River
(2018-12-14)Climate change is expected to alter the distributions of stream fishes in ecosystems around the world, but climate projections vary widely among competing climate models. Conservation practitioners face the challenge of ...