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The Use of Recycled Material Backfills to Mitigate the Effects of Expansive Soils on Subterranean Structures
(2016)
The extreme annual weather patterns of the Midwest United States have created a demand for basements as emergency shelters in both residential and commercial structures. However, with the majority of the Midwest experiencing ...
Racial diversity in University of Oklahoma student organizations: the case for increasing informal interactional diversity within siloed institutions
(2015)
Literature suggests racial diversity is a common good for in groups and out groups and further suggests a particular type of diversity, informal interactional diversity, has the greatest benefits. This research explores ...
The Income Color Line: The Significance of Race for New Immigrants in the United States
(2016-05-13)
Using data from the first wave of the New Immigrant Survey, I examine differences in personal income—combined wage/salary, tips, professional practice, and self-employment—among new immigrants in the United States based ...
Listening At the Lab: Bird Watchers and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
(2016-05)
Professionalization within the sciences has often been presented as a process of separation between scientists and the public. Implicit within this conception of professionalization is a hierarchical conception of knowledge ...
Applying the Simplified Local Density Model to Study the Effects fo Confinement on Density in Shale Formation
(2016)
The pores in shale gas reservoirs are represented on a nanometer scale. In addition to having smaller pore sizes than conventional reservoirs, shale gas reservoirs exhibit different mechanisms of gas storage, i.e. gas ...
SON: PREDICTING THE NATURE OF SERVICE DISRUPTIONS IN CELLULAR NETWORKS
(2016-12)
An important aspect of communication is involved in its cellular network. To meet the demands, communication requires the next generation cellular network, i.e., self organizing networks (SON). In order to implement a ...
Synoptic and Local Influences on a Summertime, Long-Lived, Mixed-Phase Cloud Event Over Summit, Greenland
(2016-08-12)
Long-lived, Arctic mixed-phase clouds play a crucial role in modulating the surface energy balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet. However, due to temporally and spatially inconsistent observations, little is known about the ...
Substitutional Analysis of Cysteine Residues and Preliminary Regulon Analysis of the Redox-Sensing Transcription Regulator MsvR in Methanosarcina acetivorans
(2016-12)
Methane produced from methanogenesis in archaea may be a promising source of renewable energy as methanogens are the primary producers of biogenic methane. However, methanogens are anaerobic and experience transient oxygen ...
THIRD-PARTY DOCTRINE: GENERAL WARRANTS OF THE DIGITAL AGE
(2016-08)
The Third-Party Doctrine came about in the late 1970’s in two Supreme Court rulings in United States v. Miller, and Smith v. Maryland. The doctrine states that if an individual voluntarily provides information to a third ...
The value of reprocessing legacy data : a case study of Bois d'Arc, a Mississippi play in northeastern Oklahoma
(2013)
Exploration companies have been producing the Mississippi Lime and overlying Redfork for almost 100 years, such that legacy 3D surveys cover significant parts of northern Oklahoma. Early 3D seismic surveys were acquired ...