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A Comprehensive Investigation on Microscale Properties and Macroscopic Behavior of Natural Expansive Soils
(2012)Understanding the complicated behavior of expansive soil requires in-depth exploration of microscopic phenomena under varying situations, especially when the soil stays unsaturated and experiences swell-shrink cycles. This ... -
A Convergence Account of Ethics and Aesthetics Through A Composite Understanding of Evaluative Judgments
(2010)In this dissertation, I argue for a convergence account of the ontological status of the fields of ethics and aesthetics. This project is accomplished in three parts. -
A Convergence Account of Ethics and Aesthetics Through A Composite Understanding of Evaluative Judgments
(2010)In this dissertation, I argue for a convergence account of the ontological status of the fields of ethics and aesthetics. This project is accomplished in three parts. -
A COUPLED HYDRAULIC-MECHANICAL ELASTOPLASTIC CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR UNSATURATED SANDS AND SILTS
(2009)Unsaturated soils are three-phase porous media consisting of a solid skeleton, pore water, and pore air. It is well known that the behavior of unsaturated soils is influenced heavily by the matric suction (pore air ... -
"A Cultural Center in an Agricultural Community:" Values, Commerce, And Audience for Early Film Exhibition In Stillwater, Oklahoma
(Oklahoma State University, 1999-12-01)Traditionally, most research has focused on urban moviehouses and metropolitan moviegoers. As Kathryn Fuller has noted, " ... in the early 1900s non-urban settlements still predominated. The United States was not yet a ... -
A Culture-Based Design Pedagogy for Nigerian and South African Spatial Forms
(2011)Previous authors have discussed non-Western design forms with regards to the significance of integrating global issues, diversity issues in design curricula, and designing in diverse cultural settings. However, there are ... -
A dark cloud rests upon your nation : Lipan Apache sovereignty and relations with Mexico, the United States, and the Republic of Texas.
(2015)The indigenous nation of the Lipan Apaches initiated diplomatic interaction with European powers beginning with colonial Spain in the early eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, Lipan Apaches engaged the sovereign ... -
A Defense of Nonreductive Mental Causation
(2013)Mental causation is a problem and not just a problem for the nonphysicalist. One of the many lessons learned from Jaegwon Kim's writings in the philosophy of mind is that mental causation is a problem for the nonreductive ... -
A false feminism : the objectification of women in Isabel Allende's The stories of Eva Luna.
(2012)Isabel Allende is often praised for creating heroines that liberate themselves from oppression, often through their freedom of sexuality. In her collection of short stories, The Stories of Eva Luna, the female protagonists ... -
A functional role of Facebook : psychological and social needs.
(2011)Two studies were conducted to investigate motivations to use Facebook. In Study 1, data from 87 participants were used to determine which psychological (e.g., competence, autonomy, and relatedness) and social (e.g., ... -
A Geochemical Analysis Of The Carbon System In A Modern Tpopical Lagoon: Discovery Bay, Jamaica
(1985)"The factors which alter the total CO2 content of waters residing in Discovery Bay, Jamaica include photosynthesis, respiration, precipitation, dissolution, groundwater invasion, aerobic decay of organic matter, and gas ... -
A GRAMMATICAL APPROACH TO CUSTOMIZATION OF SHAPE AND COMPOSITE MATERIALS
(2012)With the increasing use of composite materials in Mechanical and Aerospace industries, an approach is required to facilitate designing of components using composite materials, while ensuring customization of the shape such ... -
A Guided Reinvention of Ring, Integral Domain, and Field
(2012)Abstract algebra enjoys a prestigious position in mathematics and the undergraduate mathematics curriculum. A typical abstract algebra course aims to provide students with a glimpse into the elegance of mathematics by ... -
A highly stable and repeatable source for spectroscopy of the B0u+ ← X0g+ transitions in ¹³⁰Te₂
Presented here is the detailed discussion of the use of a stabilized helium-neon laser in a Fabry-Perot interferometer to create a highly stable, precise, and repeatable frequency reference source for use in spectroscopy. ... -
A Historical Case Study of Dropout Recovery Programs in the State of Oklahoma
(2013)The purpose of this historical case study was to gain an understanding of dropout recovery programs from an interpretive historical perspective. Dropout Recovery is an Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education ...