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Impact Of Retrograde Condensation On Production In The Ohio Utica Point Pleasant, John Hooks Jan 2013

Impact Of Retrograde Condensation On Production In The Ohio Utica Point Pleasant, John Hooks

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports

The purpose of this thesis was to study the sensitivity of production in the Ohio Utica Point Pleasant play to retrograde condensation. To accomplish this two fluid models were created for a rich and lean gas condensate and two base models were created to reflect the anticipated geologies where these reservoir fluids will be encountered. A single hydraulically fractured horizontal well was placed in both models. Experimental parameters of well length, stage spacing, hydraulic fracture properties, bottom hole pressure (BHP) controls, and fluid models adjusted for pore confinement effects were varied and tested over a series of simulations. The Peng-Robinson …


Crowning The May Queen In Freshwater Place: Housing Reformers And The Uses Of Urban Nature, 1850-1914, Christine E. Regier Jan 2013

Crowning The May Queen In Freshwater Place: Housing Reformers And The Uses Of Urban Nature, 1850-1914, Christine E. Regier

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports

Ideas about nature change over time, yet the term is often used as though its meaning were universal. This study of the uses of nature in working-class housing reform in Victorian and early twentieth-century London deconstructs concepts of nature to reveal the social and cultural norms on which these concepts rely. The first efforts to provide sanitary housing to replace the London slums began in the 1840s. Model dwellings companies built housing blocks designed to give the poor access to three natural resources important in sanitation: clean water, fresh air and sunlight. They operated on a model of commercial philanthropy, …


Healthcare Quality And Expenditure Benchmarks Along The Continuum Of Care: The Role Of Primary Care Use And Community Healthcare Resources, Tricia Lee Wilkins Jan 2013

Healthcare Quality And Expenditure Benchmarks Along The Continuum Of Care: The Role Of Primary Care Use And Community Healthcare Resources, Tricia Lee Wilkins

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports

Objective: The current studies examined the relationship between lapses in quality (ambulatory care sensitive hospitalizations and all cause 30-day readmissions) and patient-level, provider-level, and county-level healthcare resources. Specific attention is paid to the association between patient-level primary care use and provider-level care coordination. One of the studies also evaluated the association between chronic complex illness and lapses in quality after adjusting for individual-level, provider-level, and county-level characteristics within a longitudinal and unified framework. Yet another study evaluated whether avoiding poor quality outcomes can be achieved below an expected expenditure benchmark.;Study Design: The study used a retrospective cross-sectional as well as …


Attitude Of Saudi Female Math Teachers Toward Integrating E-Learning In Teaching Math At High Schools In Saudi Arabia, Aishah M. Albalawi Jan 2013

Attitude Of Saudi Female Math Teachers Toward Integrating E-Learning In Teaching Math At High Schools In Saudi Arabia, Aishah M. Albalawi

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports

Leaders in government and education have launched an extensive program to reform general education in Saudi Arabia. This initiative was designed to achieve many goals with a major emphasis being the enhancement of the Saudi curriculum to take advantage of the use of technology to improve education. A goal of this project was for e-learning to be a part of public education in an attempt to improve student learning and to make education accessible to all citizens.;This study was designed to examine high school female math teachers' attitudes toward the use of e-learning in teaching mathematics in selected high schools …


An Exploration Of Master's Degree Field Study And Teacher And Student Behavior In P.E, William J. Davis Jan 2013

An Exploration Of Master's Degree Field Study And Teacher And Student Behavior In P.E, William J. Davis

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports

This study analyzed two teacher and their corresponding student behavioral systems to determine whether discipline-specific ongoing education may play a role in gaining expertise in physical education. Field systems analysis (FSA) was used to analyze an all-encompassing categorical system, which was created by induction and then used to deductively analyze the two teachers and their corresponding students. Interview data were used as well, in conjunction with FSA, to understand more completely what role each teacher's ongoing education may have played in their behavioral systems. Both teachers received training from the same undergraduate physical education program and were of the same …