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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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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
(2017-07-27)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
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 ... -
Weeding QA
(2016-06-12)The QA call number range at the M.D. Anderson Library at the University of Houston physical collection was in dire need of weeding and curating. Since there had been no prior weeding done at the library, the weeding began ... -
Well Integrity Mapping Using Hybrid Model Based on Physics of Failure and Data-Driven Methods
(2017-05-09)Presence of H2S in high pressure and high temperature wells with pressures greater than 15,000 psi or temperatures of 350 °F can lead to strength reduction of casing strings and advance the time to failure. Casing strings ... -
Well on Wheels: A Holistic Wellness Intervention for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injuries: Risk Profile, Longitudinal Outcomes, and Success
(2018-05)Individuals with spinal cord injuries (SCI) report significantly lower satisfaction with life (SWL) than the general population. One ultimate goal of rehabilitation is to increase SWL. The Well on Wheels intervention was ... -
Well Strategies for Enhanced Tight Oil Recovery
(August 201)The worldwide technically recoverable tight oil resources estimated to be 418.9 billion barrels, and about 78.2 billion are located in the US. Despite the yearly increase in oil production from the unconventional formations, ... -
Well-Posedness for Weak Solutions of Axisymmetric Div-Curl Systems
(2018-05)We study the axisymmetrc div-curl system on bounded volumes of revolution with normal and tangential boundary conditions. This vector system of equations arises in classical field theories. In particular, the electrostatic ...