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Optimum power and economy fuel-air mixtures for hydrocarbon fuels in internal combustion engines

Creator:: Popovich, Milosh Nicholas, 1917-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Extending and Visualizing Authorship in Comics Studies

Creator:: Brown, Nicholas A.
Abstract:: This thesis complicates the traditional associations between authorship and alphabetic composition within the comics medium and examines how the contributions of line artists and writers differ and may alter an audience's perceptions of the medium. As a fundamentally multimodal and collaborative work, the popular superhero comic muddies authorial claims and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 2015 AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Nicholas A. Brown for the degree of Master of Arts in English

Evaluating a Zonal-mean Hydrologic Model Against a Water Tag-enabled Global Simulation

Creator:: Mandovi, Andrew
Abstract:: The hydrologic cycle on Earth comprises the transitions among the solid, liquid, and gaseous phases of water. Understanding the hydrologic cycle is of course important for climate science, but also for agricultural, drinking water, and disaster preparedness purposes. Improvements in satellite observations and general circulation models (GCMs) have led to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: awarded to Dr. Nicholas Siler. I am thankful and grateful to my advisor Nick, for his patience through

"The life of things" : weird realisms in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads

Creator:: England, Saara Amelia
Abstract:: My thesis explores the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth as emblematic of Western philosophy and literature's longstanding preoccupation with the relationship between mind and matter. The poets' attempts to mediate their languages and sensibilities with "real nature" have a complicated legacy for today's readers, as Romantic literature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Things”: Weird Realisms in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads

Forest Decentralization in Ghana: Examining Empowerment of Local Institutions

Creator:: Mawutor, Samuel M.
Abstract:: Decentralizing resource control for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is a widely promoted scheme for natural resource governance worldwide. Researchers and policymakers have suggested that this approach has the potential to achieve positive social outcomes and succeed where centralized resource conservation has been inadequate. In reality, the powers transferred are...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Samuel M. Mawutor

"I'm the best of both worlds" : factors influencing the racial identities of biracial youth

Creator:: Mouzong, Christine LeAnn
Abstract:: This study examined the social and contextual factors that lead to differences in the way biracial adolescents interpret their racial identity. Using 11 interviews with a sample of biracial youth between the ages of 14 and 17-years-old, this study also explores the strategies these individuals use to achieve social validation...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Racial Identities of Biracial Youth Abstract approved Samuel Vuchinich This study examined

Family influences on adolescent drug relapse : follow-up study of a treatment population

Creator:: Coughlin, Chris D.
Abstract:: Relapse is a common occurrence in the treatment of adolescent substance abuse. It is estimated that one out of three adolescents will relapse after treatment termination. Although much attention has been given to family factors which influence an adolescent's use and abuse of drugs, this same vigorous attention has not...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: Samuel Vuchinich Relapse is a common occurrence in the treatment of adolescent

A comparison of two different balance programs

Creator:: Eisenhard, Jordyn
Abstract:: There is limited knowledge regarding differential training as it relates to balance. The purpose of this study was to compare the performance and retention of a differential training balance program and a traditional balance program. Thirty-three Division I soccer athletes volunteered to participate and 29 completed the study. Participants were...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: ___________________________________________________________________________ Samuel T

Exploring stakeholders' attitudes and beliefs regarding behaviors that prevent the spread of invasive species : a focus group study

Creator:: Kubeck, Gwenn
Abstract:: This research explores the barriers that prevent stakeholders from changing their hobby behaviors to help prevent the spread of invasive species in Oregon. Invasive species are increasingly causing economic and ecosystem harm in Oregon. This is among the first studies done on the human dimensions of invasive species. Using the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Spread of Invasive Species: A Focus Group Study Abstract approved: Samuel Chan

Evaluation of system-level performance of closed thermochemical energy storage systems for space heating

Creator:: Rivera, Kate E.
Abstract:: This study evaluates the system efficiency and energy-offsetting capabilities of a closed-cycle thermochemical energy storage (TCES) system. Current TCES research primarily focuses on material selection and reactor design but overlooks the practical limitations faced on a system level. Thus, this study investigates various TCES integration methods for providing building space...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Optimum power and economy fuel-air mixtures for hydrocarbon fuels in internal combustion engines

Extending and Visualizing Authorship in Comics Studies

Evaluating a Zonal-mean Hydrologic Model Against a Water Tag-enabled Global Simulation

"The life of things" : weird realisms in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads

Forest Decentralization in Ghana: Examining Empowerment of Local Institutions

"I'm the best of both worlds" : factors influencing the racial identities of biracial youth

Family influences on adolescent drug relapse : follow-up study of a treatment population

A comparison of two different balance programs

Exploring stakeholders' attitudes and beliefs regarding behaviors that prevent the spread of invasive species : a focus group study

Evaluation of system-level performance of closed thermochemical energy storage systems for space heating

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