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The effect of CO₂ infused ice on the formation and dissociation of CO₂ hydrate
(2013)
CO₂ gas hydrates are crystalline water ice cages around a CO₂ molecule. CO₂ affects global climate change on Earth and a major atmospheric component of the Martian atmosphere. CO₂ hydrates likely have minor effects on ...
Billions of Dollars Lost Along the Checkpoints? An Econometric Analysis of Labor Mobility, Economic Development, and Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(2016-05)
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has now persisted for nearly 70 years with little progress towards a solution, and the conflict continues to exact high costs on both societies year after year. Unfortunately, the failure ...
IMPROVED VERTICAL COUPLING BETWEEN PRINTED PLANAR TRANSMISSION LINES
(2016-12-16)
In microwave devices, an aperture is often used as a radiating antenna element or to direct energy vertically from a feed line on one layer of a circuit to another. Researchers have employed many methods to describe the ...
Rawinsonde Observations of Supercell-Environment Interactions
(2016-12)
The Mesoscale Predictability Experiment (MPEX) in 2013 and Mini-MPEX in 2016 used mobile soundings to observe the near-storm environments of springtime Great Plains convection. Together, the projects collected over 100 ...
SECOND AND TRAINEE COMPANIES IN THE UNITED STATES: ANALYSIS OF PAST AND PRESENT MISSIONS
(2016)
The Ballet profession in the United States has seen a trend growing with the introduction of a trainee or second company with affiliation to each ballet main company. This allows for the main company to have a roster of ...
Native American Stories as Scientific Investigations of Nature: Indigenous Science and Methodologies
(2016-05-13)
Scientific knowledge is a global pursuit, one that takes on many different guises across cultures. This thesis argues that indigenous peoples have and had their own, independently developed forms of scientific knowledge, ...
Using the Integrative Model to Predict Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption Among Adults Attempting Weight Loss in Southern Oklahoma
(2016-05-14)
Adult obesity is a serious problem in the United States as approximately 68.5% of adults are overweight or obese. Obesity is caused by many factors including lifestyle behaviors, psychological and physiological circumstances, ...
EFFECT OF THE TOXIGENIC ALGA PRYMNESIUM PARVUM ON A NATURAL ZOOPLANKTON COMMUNITY
(2016-05-13)
Harmful algae blooms (HABs) have the ability to produce profound changes to aquatic communities through a variety of factors, most commonly their propensity to produce toxins that can harm co-existing organisms. Many ...
SEISMICITY AND SOURCE SPECTRA ANALYSIS IN SALTON SEA GEOTHERMAL FIELD
(2016)
The surge of “man-made” earthquakes in recent years has led to considerable concerns about the associated hazards. Improved monitoring of small earthquakes would significantly help understand such phenomena and the underlying ...
ATMOSPHERIC DUST FROM THE UPPER CARBONIFEROUS COPACABANA FORMATION (BOLIVIA): A HIGH-RESOLUTION RECORD OF CLIMATE AND VOLCANISM FROM NORTHWESTERN GONDWANA
(2016-08-19)
This study documents the occurrence of atmospheric dust from Pennsylvanian carbonates of the Copacabana Formation, recovered in core (Mobil-Oxy Manuripi X-1) from the Madre de Dios basin (Bolivia), within southern mid-latitudes ...