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PROCEDURAL FEMINISM AND SLOW ARGUMENT: THE VALUE OF LISTENING IN FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION
(2017-05-12)
This essay argues that program-wide curriculum planning can benefit from feminist practices that have come from the past decade’s feminist rhetorical theory, such as Krista Ratcliffe’s work on rhetorical listening and the ...
Development of Non-Proprietary Ultra-High-Performance Concrete Mix Designs
(2017-12)
Ultra-High-Performance Concrete (UHPC) is defined by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) as having a compressive strength of 21.7 ksi (kilo-pounds per square inch), a post-cracking tensile strength 0.72 ksi, and high ...
LABORATORY GEOMECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ARBUCKLE GROUP AND CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT ROCKS IN OKLAHOMA
(2017-05-12)
In the past decade, the rapidly increase in earthquakes in the State of Oklahoma has drawn serious attention. Some investigations have attributed the increased MEQ to the large amount of wastewater injections as part of ...
Quantification of recovery factors in downspaced shale wells
(2016-12-16)
Well spacing optimization in horizontal multi-fractured wells is the center of field development. Unconventional reservoirs due to the low matrix permeability cannot produce without the help of hydraulic fracturing. Unlike ...
La vida es sueño and the Archetypes: A Jungian Literary Analysis
(2016-12)
To date there have been no comprehensive Jungian analyses of La vida es sueño, despite the play’s extensive bibliography. A Jungian analysis provides a novel perspective on the fraught relationship between Basilio and ...
Intergenerational Socialization of Gender from Grandparents to Grandchildren: Examining Mechanisms of Exposure
(2016-05-13)
Though grandparents are known to be influential in the lives of their grandchildren, little quantitative research exists to assess the intergenerational socialization of gender ideology within the grandparent-grandchild ...
Natural Disaster Crisis Communication by FEMA and Red Cross Via Twitter During Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Lane, Matthew, and Michael
(2019-08-01)
This thesis examined the way disaster relief agencies, FEMA and Red Cross, communicated during natural hazards at the national and regional levels. Using tweets from the weeks of hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Lane, Matthew, and ...
A Novel Method for the Characterization of Anisotropic Materials
(2018-12-14)
This thesis details the successful conceptualization, development, and proof of concept testing of a novel system for the characterization of a material's electromagnetic properties. In particular, the proposed system was ...
High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy of the NPRA, North Slope, Alaska
(2019)
The deposition of sediment in the Ikpikpuk-Umiat Basin of the NPRA has been governed by four distinct tectonic phases: 1) Franklinian crustal shortening, 2) Ellesmerian continental sag, 3) Beaufortian continental rifting, ...
ESTIMATING BRITTLENESS USING SEISMIC DATA IN AN UNCONVENTIONAL SHALE RESERVOIR, FORT WORTH BASIN, NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
(2017-05-13)
Brittleness within unconventional shale plays is a major component in reservoir
stimulation. Mineralogy measured in nearby wells estimates brittleness and can be
correlated to elastic parameters measured in well logs ...