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  • Timescales and tectonics of oceanic plateaus : long-term evolution of Ontong Java Nui and Rio Grande Rise

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    Davidson, Peter C.
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    Oceanic plateaus are regions of overthickened oceanic crust and are often thought to form from the interaction of mantle plumes with oceanic lithosphere. These regions can cover vast areas of the ocean basins and represent a highly elevated magmatic flux relative to normal mid-ocean ridge spreading. Oceanic plateaus are considered...
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    Java Plateau; PETM: Paleocene- Eocene Thermal Maximum; Pl-To: Pliensbachian-Toarcian boundary event; P

  • Implementation Science in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: A Mixed-Methods Study of the Utility Value Intervention in General Psychology Courses

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    Soicher, Raechel N.
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    Despite the dissemination of comprehensive reviews and teacher-friendly resources describing evidence-based practices to improve student outcomes, the adoption of these practices is slow and inconsistent across instructors at colleges and universities. To help reduce this research-practice gap, I argue for the application of implementation science to teaching and learning research...
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    OF AUTHORS Keiko C. P. Bostwick, University of New South Wales, Australia: edited the first

  • Design and Analysis of Free-space Optical Communications Systems for Next Generation Short-range Wireless Networks

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    Liverman, Spencer
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    This dissertation focuses on indoor free-space optical communications systems for use in short range wireless networks. We propose that current radio frequency wireless links be augmented or replaced with optical frequency links due to overcrowding in the radio frequency spectrum. Optical frequencies contain hundreds of terahertz of unregulated bandwidth and...
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  • Application of Infrared Spectroscopy for Determination of Wood Natural Durability

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    Lipeh, Shahlinney
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    Natural durability remains one of the most attractive characteristics of wood, and helps wood obtain a premium price. A worldwide shift towards the use of younger trees from intensively managed forests has created greater concerns about wood quality, especially the wood’s resistance to fungi and insects. Wood durability is assessed...
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    guiding me in every step of my writing process.  Committee members Dr. Darrell W. Ross, Dr. Seri C

  • Assessment of Social Sustainability for the Construction Workforce

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    Karakhan, Ali A.
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    Minimal research has focused on the social dimension of sustainability in the built environment especially as it relates to the construction workforce. As a result, there are few to no tools available to industry stakeholders to holistically assess and improve the social sustainability of the construction workforce. Given the high...
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    (W-SAT). The present research contributes to the body of knowledge by fulfilling the industry need

  • Transdermal Delivery of Atenolol to Cats

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    Mohamed, Sumeia M.
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    This thesis describes in-vitro and in-vivo evaluation of a transdermal atenolol formulation developed at Oregon State University, College of Pharmacy. The formulation was prepared from carbomer as a gel base with propylene glycol, glycerol, ethanol, polysorbate 80 and dimethyl-isosorbide (DMI) as mixture of penetration enhancing agents. The effect of the...
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    drug (1% w/v). All the atenolol formulations markedly (p < 0.001) improved the amount of drug that

  • Boosting Intracellular Delivery of mRNA Therapeutics

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    Patel, Siddharth D.
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    Intracellular delivery of mRNA holds great potential for vaccine and therapeutic discovery and development. This is realized by the preeminent role mRNA is playing in the record-breaking pace of SARS-CoV-19 vaccine development. Recent advances in chemical modifications of mRNA have enabled high-efficiency gene expression with superior spatiotemporal control while eliminating...
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    asthma and other lung diseases, enhance intracellular mRNA delivery in vitro (over 3-fold, p < 0.005

  • A socio-technical study on the improved characterization of stakeholder behaviors and stream temperature in design of watershed conservation practices for climate change adaptation

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    Noa-Yarasca, Efrain
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    Characterizing stakeholder behavior when making decisions in watershed management is a great challenge for planners, not only because plans are associated with physical uncertainties but also because stakeholders’ behaviors are influenced by numerous factors. Since stakeholders’ decision-making is linked to multiple types of uncertainty, communication of uncertainty to stakeholders by...
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    E-W orientation, the contributions of each bank in reducing stream temperature are markedly

  • Knowledge Appropriation and Inventive Productivity

    Creator:
    Choi, Yohan
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    Innovation is critical for firm growth and survival. Thus, how much value firms create and capture from their innovative activities has been an interest of scholars. This dissertation explores three important questions on this topic to which extant literature has paid little attention. First, I examine how the external threat...
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    and Jackson, 1987, p. 80). Threat-rigidity theory (Chattopadhyay et al., 2001; Ocasio, 1995; Staw et

  • New Graphite Intercalation Chemistry with Alkaline Earth Metals

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    Xu, Wei
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    Novel graphite intercalation compounds (GICs) and associated chemistry have been explored, specifically: (1) containing alkyl- substituted imidazolium cations; (2) a series containing alkaline earth metal (Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba) cations with ethylenediamine (en) co-intercalates; (3) showing reversible intragallery M-M bonding and (4) via electrochemical intercalation of Mg cations with potential...
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    Teaching Assistant Award (2019), Bruce Graham Memorial Fellowship (2019), David P. & Clara B. Shoemaker