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Digital radar receiver design based on highly efficient bandpass sampling FPGA architecture
(2009)As digital electronics become faster and more efficient, it becomes possible to move the analog/digital interface in a radar downconversion system further towards the antenna. Instead of digitizing radar echoes at the end ... -
Dioxygen Evolution from Oxo-Ruthenium Complexes
(2020-12)Divestment from fossil fuels is necessary in order to lessen the impacts of climate change across the planet. One alternative to fossil fuels is hydrogen gas, which is utilized in syn gas and hydrogen fuel cells. However, ... -
Discourses of Division: An Ethnography of the Oklahoma Proud Boys
(2022-05-13)As a self-described group of "Western chauvinists," the Proud Boys have become lodged within the national consciousness because of their participation in historical and contemporary discourses concerned with fascism, ... -
Discovering Accessible Data Visualizations for People with ADHD
(2024-05-10)There have been many studies on understanding effective data visualizations regarding general users. However, we have a limited understanding on how people with ADHD comprehend data visualizations and how it might differ ... -
A DISLOCATION-BASED BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD TO MODEL PRESSURIZED FRACTURES
(2019)A significant portion of hydrocarbon and geothermal resources in the world, and especially in the United States, is unconventional. Some of the unconventional resources have special geological structures so that their ... -
Disorder and Unity in Bruno Mantovani's Bug for Solo Clarinet
(2021-05-14)Bruno Mantovani’s Bug (1999) for solo clarinet is a musical metaphor that depicts the disarray and disorientation caused by an imaginary computer malfunction. Historically, this piece parallels the anxiety surrounding the ... -
Disorder, Disorganization, and Delinquency: A Mediation Analysis of Environmental Disorder, Extra-Curricular Activities, and Delinquency from Early to Late Adolescence
(2022-05-13)According to the literature, youth violence, neighborhood crime rates, and early delinquency have been associated with vacant or abandoned housing, and adverse environmental and urban conditions (Jackson, Newsome, and Lynch ... -
Disparities within K-12 Educational Building Environments: A Framework for Designing Educational Spaces for Health & Wellbeing In and Out of the Classroom
(2024-05-10)Introduction: Students endure social, economic, and environmental impacts that affect their behavior, mental health, and cognitive development. Evidence-based research and design are required to provide proficient design ... -
The Dissonance between Democracy's Promise and Its Gendered Reality
(2018-12-14)In international development discourse and political science literature, there appears to be consensus that democratic governance contributes to gender equality. As a result, democracy and women’s rights are often articulated ... -
Distributed Energy Feedback Control for Demand Response Operations in Commercial HVAC Systems
(2021-08)The goal of this thesis is to identify methods to control a commercial Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system that results in precise control of the cooling coil load and the ability to prioritize the ... -
Distributions and Bioaccumulation of Microcystins
(2022-05-13)Microcystins are hepatotoxins and tumor promotors, with various deleterious effects on plants as well. There are 270+ known congeners of the toxin microcystin, structural variants of the molecule. These hepatotoxins are ... -
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education: A Reality or a Façade?
(2020-12-18)In response to the growing demographics in the United States, diversity, equity, and Inclusion (D.E.I.) offices and efforts have become a conventional part of higher education institutions in the United States. Despite ... -
Do We Really Need Deep Learning?: A Study on Play Identification using SEM Images
(2021-05-14)Deep learning has become an integral part of image classification and segmentation, especially with the use of convolutional neural networks (CNN) and their variants. Although computationally expensive and time-consuming, ... -
Do Words Really Mean Things? Habitual Voters and the Framing Effects of Ballot Language
(2017-05)The alleged dangers of direct democracy have been debated since the founding of the United States, and this discussion carries on into the current time whenever the subject of referendum elections is raised. While much ... -
Does Acute Melatonin Supplementation Affect Cerebrovascular Reactivity in Healthy Young Adults?
(2024-05-10)Melatonin receptors have been found in the cerebrovasculature in animal models, and melatonin has been shown to improve systemic vascular control. While there is a correlation between low melatonin production and cardiovascular ... -
Does economic redistribution affect voting for populist radical right parties in Europe?
(2023)This thesis adds to our understanding of what contributes to populist radical right voting by looking at the role of redistribution in relation to populist radical right voting. Additionally, the empirical testing in this ... -
Does EDHF-blockade by fluconazole alter cerebral autoregulation and hemodynamics during lower-body negative pressure?
(2023-05-12)Animal models suggest that cytochrome P450 2C9 (CYP450), an enzyme within the EDHF pathway, plays a critical role in the control of cerebral hemodynamics and autoregulation. However, this observation has not been directly ... -
Domesticity, Utopia, and Biopolitics: A Critical Study of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Moving the Mountain
(2018-05-11)With the rise of first-wave feminism in United States, often characterized by the movement to secure women the right to vote and enact a voice in the public sphere, the early twentieth century indicated a clear ideological ... -
Doppler Radar Analyses of Tornadic Supercells on 19 May 2013
(2016-05-13)On 19 May 2013, two supercells moved through central Oklahoma and produced seven tornadoes, including one of EF-3 and one of EF-4 intensity. High temporal and spatial resolution observations were collected in both strong ... -
Downhole dynagraph measurement
(1986)While various mathematical models exist for predicting downhole forces and motion in sucker rod type pumping systems, none have been thoroughly verified with actual measurements. In fact, downhole force measurements were ...