Non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasmas are increasingly attracting more attention from the scientific community for their potential use in surface treatment and biomedical applications. Even though considerable progress ...

Pre-stack simultaneous inversion of seismic reflection data, a methodology based on amplitude variations with offset (AVO), presents a more flexible and detailed tool than traditional post-stack amplitude analysis. Given ...

There are currently several decline models in existence for production forecasting in unconventional reservoirs. This purpose of this research is to apply these different decline models to unconventional wells and provide ...

Diblock copolymers are amphiphilic molecules, which spontaneously form micelles in a selective solvent. Through careful selection of polymer composition, solvent, temperature, and pH, the physical characteristics of the ...

Most of our mental processes rely on memorization, and dysfunctions of memory systems can lead to severe perceptual, cognitive, and motor deficits. Although decades of research has accumulated a large knowledge base on ...

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 ...

The purpose of this study is to identify that identified the major factors that prompted early career teachers to decide to leave the teaching profession by recording their lived experiences through interview. Narrative ...

Gene expression is a stochastic biological processes that controls the different phenotypes of an organism depending on the environment. High-resolution single cell measurements show that genetically identical cells can ...

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is a powerful technique to monitor ground deformation phenomena, such as landslides, ground subsidence, seismological activities, and volcano dynamics. In this dissertation, ...

The dissertation consists of two applied health economics studies on early childhood environment and the short- and long-term health outcomes. The first study uses detailed birth registries and health insurance claims ...