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Walk & Learn for Wellness: Implementing an Employee Wellness Program
(2016-04-21)Presented the planning and results of an employee wellness program at the University of Houston Libraries. The wellness program included a walking challenge, a lunch and learn series, and the purchase of a treadmill desk ... -
War Trophies and Ancestor Veneration, A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Maya Secondary Interments at Formative Cuello and K'axob in Northern Belize
(2015-05)Secondary interments, common among Maya burials, are typically identified by disarticulated or unnatural positioning of the skeleton within the grave. Various beliefs and procedures are responsible for these atypical ... -
Washing in hypotonic saline reduces the fraction of irreversibly-damaged cells in stored blood: a proof-of-concept study
(Blood Transfusion, 2017-09)Background During hypothermic storage, a substantial fraction of red blood cells (RBCs) transforms from flexible discocytes to rigid sphero-echinocytes and spherocytes. Infusion of these irreversibly-damaged cells into the ... -
Washing stored red blood cells in an albumin solution improves their morphological and hemorheological properties
(Transfusion, 8/1/2016)BACKGROUND Prolonged storage of red blood cells leads to storage lesions, which may impair clinical outcomes after transfusion. A hallmark of storage lesions is progressive echinocytic shape transformation, which can be ... -
Water Coning: A Mitigation Investigation
(2018)This undergraduate level research covers an analysis in the reservoir phenomenon known as water conning. The question being explored is if there exist a scenario where a dual well completion versus a single well completion ... -
Water Contents of the Mantle Lithosphere beneath the Southwestern United States: FTIR Analysis of Peridotite Xenoliths from the Rio Grande Rift, NM, and Dish Hill, CA
(December 2)This project aims at understanding the distribution and partitioning behavior of water in the Earth's mantle relative to melting, metasomatism, and oxygen fugacity conditions. For that purpose, the water contents, Fe3+ ... -
Water molecules in the antibody朼ntigen interface of the structure of the Fab HyHEL-5杔ysozyme complex at 1.7 A? resolution: comparison with results from isothermal titration calorimetry
(Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography, 2005)The structure of the complex between hen egg-white lysozyme and the Fab HyHEL-5 at 2.7 A? resolution has previously been reported [Cohen et al. (1996), Acta Cryst. D52, 315�6]. With the availability of recombinant Fab, the ... -
Water oxidation with ruthenium catalysts
(2012-08)CeIV-activated water oxidation: A family of 29 mononuclear RuII complexes have been prepared and characterized by 1H NMR, electronic absorption, and cyclic voltammetry. These complexes are studied as catalysts for water ... -
WATER RIGHTS AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY: EVIDENCE FROM INDIA
(2012-05)There is growing concern in the world to better manage water resources in order to sustain increased water demands. This heightened demand can be most importantly attributed to a rapid population growth and heightened ... -
Watercolor in Context: Exploring Social Justice Issues Through Art
(May 2018)Background: Research denotes that many of America’s educational inequities are rooted in issues of gender, social class, and race. Due to demographic changes in the nation’s school population, pre-service educators are ... -
Waterflooding Management and Identifying IOR Opportunities in a Mature Reservoir
(2019-12)This thesis has identified opportunities to improve production performance by utilizing secondary and tertiary recovery strategies in a mature oil reservoir. The identification techniques include analytical methods and ... -
WAVE-THEORETIC PREPROCESSING TO ALLOW THE INVERSE SCATTERING SERIES METHODS FOR MULTIPLE REMOVAL AND DEPTH IMAGING TO REALIZE THEIR POTENTIAL AND IMPACT: METHODS, EXAMPLES, AND ADDED VALUE
(2013-12)The research described in this dissertation (1) extends Green's-theorem ghost removal in the space-frequency domain to complicated synthetic (SEAM) and field data, bringing in (and solving) acquisition issues that affect ... -
Wave-Theory-Based Seismic Data Preprocessing: An Extension of the Current Deghosting Method to Allow for a Variable Measurement Surface Topography and Its Impact on the Inverse Scattering Series Internal Multiple Attenuation and Elimination
(2017-08)In seismic exploration activities, information about the nature of the seismic experiment including defining the data acquisition surface is an important prerequisite for many data processing methods. It is not unusual in ... -
Wavelet Approaches to Seismic Data Analysis
(2012-12)There have been extensive applications of wavelets to petroleum seismic data. In this dissertation, we focus on developing and testing new wavelets approaches to seismic data compression, microseismic first arrival picking, ... -
Wayne Shorter’s Pegasus: A Mythical Jazz Narrative
(2019-05)This essay explores the application of narrative analysis to the genre of jazz and focuses on the form, the semantic concepts involved in the projection of musical narrative, and the act of transvaluation in Wayne Shorter’s ... -
WEARABLE ELECTRODERMAL ACTIVITY SENSING - A VALIDATION STUDY
(2013-12)Electrodermal activity (EDA) is an important affective indicator, which is conven- tionally measured via Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) probes tethered on the fingers. Recently, a new generation of EDA sensors came into ... -
Web Accessibility: Practical Advice for the Library and Information Professional
(Reference & User Services Association, 2009)The article reviews the book "Web Accessibility: Practical Advice for the Library and Information Professional," edited by Jenny Craven. -
Web-based intervention to change perceived norms of college student alcohol use and sexual behavior on Spring Break
(Addictive Behaviors, 2014-03)The purpose of the present study was to evaluate an adapted web-based multi-component personalized feedback intervention to reduce college student alcohol use and risky sexual behavior during Spring Break. This is one of ... -
Web-Scale Discovery: Post Implementation
(2012-04-20)Discovery services provide users a single search box to access a library’s entire preindexed collection. Representatives from two academic libraries serving different user populations will discuss marketing, instructing ... -
Weblog Discourses on Voluntary Childlessness
(2016-05)This thesis is a study of voluntarily childless individuals who write discourses on weblogs. This research addresses the bloggers’ narratives on who the voluntarily childless bloggers are, what their perceptions are of the ...