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Days of Darkness: The Wichitas in Indian Territory and Kansas, 1859-1867
(2019-12-13)Most of what is known about the history of the Wichita peoples is scattered throughout the works of historians Earl H. Elam and F. Todd Smith, as well as anthropologist W. W. Newcomb, Jr., leaving this historiography of ... -
Decadent Ekphrasis in The Picture of Dorian Gray
(2022-12-16)Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, as a novel about aesthetes and decadent artists, has several acts of ekphrasis, the process by which visual art is detailed using a verbal description. Unlike the traditional use ... -
Decentralized Resource Allocation for Interdependent Infrastructure Networks Restoration: A Game Theory Approach
(2020-05)Critical infrastructures are governed by several sectors working together to maintain social, economic and environmental well-being. These infrastructures are interdependent and rely on a complex schedule of repair after ... -
Decision aids in patient-physician communication for supporting shared decision making and patient satisfaction: an experimental study
(2022-08-04)The aim of this study was to explore the effect of the use and style of decision aids on shared decision making and patient satisfaction in patient-physician communication in the context of Generalized Anxiety Disorder ... -
Decision Analysis Tools for Multiobjective Tradeoffs in Project Risk Management
(2016-08)The need to manage project risk, through the use of decision analysis tools and other approaches will only increase in the future. Several statistical methods are applied to simulate, in a project risk environment, a simple ... -
The decision to trust: an application of structural equation modeling to the actor evaluation and trust framework
(2024-05-10)The growing number of crises, from public health crises like COVID-19 to natural disasters like wildfires and hurricanes, has exposed the need for a comprehensive framework to understand how an individual decides who to ... -
Decolonizing humans, ending gender abuse, and sexual violence, from discovery to the twenty-first century and beyond
(2022-05-13)To understand “Decolonizing Humans, Ending Gender Abuse, and Sexual Violence, from Discovery to the Twenty-First Century and Beyond.” We will look at the mechanisms from time immemorial to the present that that buoy ... -
Decolonizing the Concrete Wave: Visual Sovereignty in Native American Skateboarding Culture
(2017-05-12)This thesis focuses primarily on skateboard deck graphics and the cultural and political implications of skateboarding within the context of settler colonialism in the contemporary United States. It examines the intersection ... -
Decolonizing the Indigenous Language Classroom: A Heteroglossia of Ideological Shift in Indigenous Language Revitalization
(2017-05)This thesis examines the language ideologies of three Native American language instructors at the University of Oklahoma, looking specifically at the way these ideologies are seen in their pedagogical methodologies. This ... -
Decomposition Algorithm in Fixed Charge Time-Space Network Flow Problems
(2017-12-15)A wide range of network flow problems primarily used in transportation is categorized as time-space fixed charge network flow (FCNF) problems. In this family of networks, each node is associated with a specific time and ... -
DEEP LEARNING FOR SHALE SEM IMAGE ANALYSIS
(2020)The microstructure of unconventional reservoir rocks not only controls the storage and transport of hydrocarbons but also controls the mechanical properties of the shale. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) has been valuable ... -
Deep Learning for Weak Target Detection in Range-Doppler Data
(2022-05)A consistent issue for detectors in radar systems is how to correctly distinguish target signals from random noise. This is especially true for weak targets with low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). Traditional target detection ... -
DeepWiN: Deep Graph Reinforcement Learning for User-Centric Radio Access Networks Automation
(2023-12-15)The future cellular networks are expected to support an increasing number of users with heterogeneous applications, requiring varying network resources. Therefore, the 6G and beyond cellular networks need to be elastic, ... -
DEFENDING THE NEED FOR PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE AND EUTHANASIA
(2017-05)This work intends to defend the need for the United States to adopted a law such as Holland’s Euthanasia Law to ensure the best possible medical interventions and options are provided to all. Medicine gives those who can ... -
Defining functional tooth morphotypes in extant and extinct crocodylians, with dietary and feeding implications
(2000)Crocodylians have traditionally been considered to have homodont dentitions (eg., Kalin, 1933; Langston, 1973). Although all the teeth in these species are cone-shaped, there is a large amount of morphological variation ... -
Deinking Printed Plastic Using Nonionic Surfactant and Cationic Polymer
(2021-08-05)Plastic recycling has been an ongoing conversation amongst many environmentalists who aim to reduce consumption and use of plastic. Prior to reducing plastic use, it is crucial to consider the current process of recycling ... -
Delinearization of Polyhedral Abstractions to Characterize Quantum Assembly
(2021-12)Increasingly complex quantum algorithms are designed in a hardware-agnostic fashion, implemented leveraging high-level programming languages, and then lowered to simpler sequences of quantum operations (gates) using a ... -
Deltaic Sedimentation and Stratigraphy of the Late Cretaceous Frontier Formation in the Southeast Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
(2019-05-10)Regional subsurface mapping of the Cretaceous Frontier Formation indicates that it was deposited as discrete deltaic lobes within the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway (KWIS). The source of sediment was to the west and ... -
Delving deeper into plant assembly: determine the role of intraspecific diversity across space and time to affect carbon dynamics in natural and managed systems
(2019-05-11)Understanding the key ecological processes contributing towards the spatial-temporal variation in intra-specific diversity of commonly occurring species, especially during early colonization events, can be key to predict ...