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An Assessment of Extension Personnel's Roles Amidst Natural Disasters
(2019-05-16)
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the current roles of extension personnel through their experience in training, communication with elected officials, communication with other agencies and the community during and ...
Dynamic Reservoir Characterization Of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs From An Inter-Well Tracer Test
(2013-12-03)
After field redevelopment in the Sherrod Unit of the Spraberry Trend Area, an inter-well tracer test was conducted at the field scale in order to understand the fracture system, which forms preferential flow paths for ...
Characterization of salA, syrF, and syrG Regulatory Networks Involved in Plant Pathogenesis by Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae B728a
(2014-02-06)
Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae B728a, causal agent of brown spot on bean, is an economically important plant pathogen that utilizes extracellular signaling to initiate a lifestyle change from an epiphyte to a pathogen. ...
Gender Differences in Emotional and Sexual Intimacy: An Examination Using Item Response Theory
(2015-12-10)
The presence and quality of emotional intimacy and sexual intimacy are fundamental to both men’s and women’s relationship functioning. However, previous studies suggest that gender differences exist in men’s and women’s ...
Effectiveness and Efficiency of Polymers in Enhanced Oil Recovery of High Water Cut Reservoirs of Varying Salinities and Temperatures via Reservoir Simulations
(2018-08-09)
The world‟s energy demand is increasing and all indications are that oil will be the leading energy supply for the foreseeable future. However, a significant amount of the world‟s „easy to produce oil‟, has been produced. ...
The Concept of Virtual Arrays in Seismic Data Acquisition
(2012-06-22)
We are presenting a new way of improving seismic-array responses. By analyzing the relationship between the covariance matrix forms from the real sensors of seismic arrays and the fourth-order crosscumulants from the same ...
A Bootstrap Metropolis-Hastings algorithm for Bayesian Analysis of Big Data
(2014-11-19)
Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods have proven to be a very powerful tool for analyzing data of complex structures. However, their compute-intensive nature, which typically require a large number of iterations and a ...
Instrumentation to Measure the Backscattering Coefficient bb for Arbitrary Phase Functions
(2011-10-21)
The backscattering coefficient bb is one of the inherent optical properties of natural
waters which means that it is independent of the ambient light field in the water.
As such, it plays a central role in many problems ...
Quantification of Intraepidermal Nerve Fiber Density as a Diagnostic Tool for Neuropathies in Dogs
(2020-04-15)
Skin biopsies have been extensively used for the diagnosis of small fiber neuropathies in humans. Although inherited and acquired neuropathies have been documented in dogs, they can be difficult to unequivocally diagnose ...
The Effect of Smartphone Use on the Perception of Time
(2020-04-16)
The growing popularity of smartphone adoption and use has prompted researchers to investigate the implications of their problematic use. Despite the many benefits attributed to mobile phone and smartphone technology, many ...