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DEMONSTRATING THE VALUE OF TARGETED UPPER-AIR OBSERVATIONS FOR ASSIMILATION INTO THE TTU WRF ENSEMBLE USING ENSEMBLE SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS IN CONVECTIVE SCENARIOS.
(2021-07-26)Ensemble Sensitivity Analysis (ESA) provides a framework for estimating the impact of assimilating observations in a numerical weather prediction (NWP) model. This, theoretically, allows for observation targeting, the ... -
Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Online: Why Making Matters on Pinterest
(2021-07-26)The Do-It-Yourself (DIY) community is currently one of the largest creative content communities on Pinterest (Hall et al., 2018), a social networking service (SNS) that encourages users to both share information about ... -
Influence of Woody Vegetation Patterns on Overwinter Spatial Ecology and Demographics of Scaled Quail
(2021-07-15)Scaled quail are a small gallinaceous upland game bird that has exhibited population declines throughout their geographic range over the past four decades. The Texas Rolling Plains scaled quail populations decline 79% ... -
Effects of 3D printing nano-aerosol emissions and microplastics on A549 Epithelial Lung Cells
(2021-07-14)The 3D printer was initially developed in 1983 to allow engineers to prototype ideas before moving into the next stages of production. Today the 3D printing industry is a multi-million-dollar industry with marketing focused ... -
Assessing Spatial and Temporal Variability in Cotton Yield, Soil Properties, and Profitability for Precision Agriculture in the Southern High Plains
(2021-07-21)Understanding the spatio-temporal variability of soil properties, topography, crop growth, vegetative indices, and yield are the key prerequisites in developing strategies for precise management of agriculture inputs and ... -
Effectiveness of TAP Rubric in Improving K-12 Teacher Candidates’ Teaching Performance
(2021-07-29)With the teacher evaluation policy moved from emphasizing school performance to the effectiveness of individual teachers, evaluations for teacher’s teaching performance have been viewed as critical methods to enhance their ... -
Use of nano CaCO3 in sustainable cement production
(2021-07-26)Cement industry is the second largest leading contributor of greenhouse gases after power plant industries. Several efforts such as the use of Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCMs), Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), ... -
Flatland Forensics: Analyzing Insect Succession on Decomposing Remains in a High Plains Agricultural Environment
(2021-07-13)Forensic Entomology is the analysis of arthropods and their respective life cycles in medico-legal investigations, typically to determine a time period in which cessation of life had occurred. The process of human decomposition ... -
Reevaluating the Boundary Conditions of the Perturbation Pressure Poisson Equation and an Iterative Solution on a Non-Uniform Grid
(2021-07-09)Convective scale numerical models have been used by many researches over the years to simulate supercellular storms and explore their features. One common technique is to relate these features to the structure of the ... -
Orchestrating Social Competence: On the Transformative Work of Musicking in Two Ugandan NGOs (M-LISADA and Brass for Africa)
(2021-07-26)This dissertation provides a critical examination of music as a pedagogical and transformative tool for building social competence among disadvantaged young people in the city of Kampala, Uganda, through the cultural work ... -
Mechanical Spectral Hole Burning and Nonlinear Rheology of Glassy Polymers
(2021-07-26)The relaxation dynamics of glassy materials have attracted great attention because of its wide range of applications, due to which a fundamental understanding of the origins of the broadened relaxation response is necessary. ... -
Analysis of Leadership Skills of Extension Agents in the Coffee Sector of Costa Rica Through a Period of Crisis
(2021-07-30)The COVID-19 pandemic brought consequences that needed to be efficiently managed by extension agents in the coffee sector of Costa Rica. In times of crisis, having effective leadership could be the game-changer between ... -
Was the joke on us? Negotiating Mexican identity in transnational Mexican comedy blockbusters since 2013
(2021-07-26)In times where globalization, transnationalism, and free-market forces have encouraged the formation of pan-identities, the role of cultural identities has been downplayed to the extent of claiming that they are no longer ... -
Essays on the market for sustainability
(2021-08-04)Essay 1: The increasing growth of consumption needs puts pressure on the natural systems, harming the climate, biodiversity, and water. This has induced a growing recognition that action should be taken to mitigate ... -
Getting There: The Process of Overcoming Barriers to Couple Therapy
(2021-07-26)Relational distress has been shown to negatively impact approximately 20% of married couples at any given time. Despite the negative impacts of such distress, very few couples seek out relationship therapy. Very few studies ... -
Establishing an Agricultural Origin of Soils from Footwear Using a Soil Microbial Approach
(2021-07-27)Forensic science describes the boundary between science and the law. Scientific evidence is often used to convict individuals of a crime or free the wrongly convicted. Forensic analysis consists of several disciplines ... -
Analysis of the performance of ensemble methods in reservoir simulation history matching
(2021-07-26)The establishment of a reliable geological model is the basis of efficient reservoir evaluation, management, and development, as well as a guarantee for the performance prediction of reservoirs and wells. In the history ... -
The Benefits of Hindsight are Limited: An Investigation of Retrospective Pre-Post Designs as an Intervention to Improve the Accuracy of Judgments of Learning
(2021-07-23)Most metacognition research involves having participants study some information before making judgments of learning (JOLs) and taking a (recall or recognition) test covering the studied information. In many instances, ... -
Long-term trends in water quality, land cover, and pesticide use in watersheds of the Southern Great Plains and their association with Prymnesium parvum
(2021-07-08)Prymnesium parvum is a harmful alga responsible for numerous fish-kill events worldwide and in the United States. Different biotic and abiotic factors may influence P. parvum distribution, growth, and toxicity. Several ... -
The Effectiveness of Changing Lives and Changing Outcomes: An Examination of Community Outcomes and Predictors of Community Failure among Adult Probationers
(2021-07-23)Despite the prevalence of mental illness within correctional settings and the unique treatment challenges posed by criminal justice involved persons with mental illness (CJ-PMI), there remains a paucity of programs ...
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