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Characterizing The Pore Structure Of The Marcellus Shale, Liaosha Song
Characterizing The Pore Structure Of The Marcellus Shale, Liaosha Song
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No abstract provided.
Towards A Better Understanding Of Paleoindian Native American Settlement In Southern Ohio: A Multi-Scalar Approach, Matthew P Purtill
Towards A Better Understanding Of Paleoindian Native American Settlement In Southern Ohio: A Multi-Scalar Approach, Matthew P Purtill
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No abstract provided.
Phenomenology And Geographic Information Science: Experiencing Landscape Through Geospatial Technologies And Higuchi-Style Indices, L. Jesse Rouse
Phenomenology And Geographic Information Science: Experiencing Landscape Through Geospatial Technologies And Higuchi-Style Indices, L. Jesse Rouse
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Research conducted on cultural landscapes is often divided into two approaches comprising a qualitative description or quantitative measure. The separation is often driven by the difference in the approach and methods utilized. Phenomenology has often been used as the framework with which to consider the experience and quality of a landscape. The descriptive and personal nature of phenomenology seeks to separate the observer from their personal biases to yield a qualitative narrative. Conversely, Geographic Information Science (GIScience) is seen as a set of methods and tools to capture, map, and analyze the quantifiable features of a landscape. However, it is …
Hydrogeology And Water Management In The Arkwright Underground Coal Mine, Pittsburgh Seam, Northern West Virginia, Bryant D. Mountjoy
Hydrogeology And Water Management In The Arkwright Underground Coal Mine, Pittsburgh Seam, Northern West Virginia, Bryant D. Mountjoy
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Arkwright #1 is a closed underground mine in the Pittsburgh coal seam near Morgantown, West Virginia USA. Arkwright shares perimeter boundaries/barriers with three other closed Pittsburgh seam mines (Osage #3, Jordan #93, Federal #1) and is partially overlain by flooded Sewickley seam mines, 25 m above it. This mine is significant primarily because it manages and treats water diverted from nearly 20 other closed mines over a 600 square kilometer area. This study examines water levels, pump records, and mine maps to describe the hydrogeology of Arkwright Mine. After closure in 1995, Arkwright and the adjacent northern Osage mines began …
Meso- And Macro-Scale Facies And Chemostratigraphic Analysis Of Middle Devonian Marcellus Shale In Northern West Virginia, Usa, Thomas J Paronish
Meso- And Macro-Scale Facies And Chemostratigraphic Analysis Of Middle Devonian Marcellus Shale In Northern West Virginia, Usa, Thomas J Paronish
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No abstract provided.
Watching You Watching Me: Lateral Surveillance In Singapore, Yan Song Lee
Watching You Watching Me: Lateral Surveillance In Singapore, Yan Song Lee
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Historically, top-down surveillance -- surveillance from the state and other organizations -- has dominated social life, but not anymore. Technological advances drove down the price of surveillance equipment which aided in the proliferation of devices such as dashboard cameras. The widespread use of affordable surveillance equipment gave rise to the phenomenon of lateral surveillance, whereby laypersons can employ surveillance techniques to monitor individuals around them. The Singapore metropolis provides an excellent example with the ubiquitous use of dashboard cameras for cars today. In this research, I focus on Singaporean rideshare drivers who are simultaneously subjected to traditional forms of top-down …
Three Essays On Urban And Health Economics, Hyunwoong Pyun
Three Essays On Urban And Health Economics, Hyunwoong Pyun
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No abstract provided.
Persistence And Characteristics Of Calculus I Students In Stem Disciplines, Xiangming Wu
Persistence And Characteristics Of Calculus I Students In Stem Disciplines, Xiangming Wu
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No abstract provided.
"Squeezed Between The Gunshots And The Gentrifiers”: Urban Agriculture In Philadelphia's Kensington Neighborhood, Arianna Hall-Reinhard
"Squeezed Between The Gunshots And The Gentrifiers”: Urban Agriculture In Philadelphia's Kensington Neighborhood, Arianna Hall-Reinhard
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Urban agriculture (UA) is part of the broader alternative food movement and a potential avenue through which to “do” food justice work. UA projects in the urban Global North are frequently motivated by social and food justice goals. Despite these guiding ideals, UA projects in America are rife with internal contradictions, including those related to racial inequalities, complex gentrification dynamics, and funding realities. In this paper, I employ the conceptual frameworks of food justice and urban political ecology to consider how gentrification and UA project funding structures affect five specific UA projects in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood. While the loss of …
Exploring The Geosensory In Geography: Examining Olfaction And Geo-Virtual Immersion As Contributors To A Sense Of Place And Embodiment, Aaron Michael Ferrari
Exploring The Geosensory In Geography: Examining Olfaction And Geo-Virtual Immersion As Contributors To A Sense Of Place And Embodiment, Aaron Michael Ferrari
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No abstract provided.
(De)Homogenizing Diaspora: An Analysis Of Indian Tamil Identities In The Us, Christabel Devadoss
(De)Homogenizing Diaspora: An Analysis Of Indian Tamil Identities In The Us, Christabel Devadoss
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No abstract provided.
Impacts Of Land Use And Land Cover Change On Regional Climate In China, Yaqian He
Impacts Of Land Use And Land Cover Change On Regional Climate In China, Yaqian He
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No abstract provided.
Exploring Memory Of Place And Place Identity Through Narrative Inquiry: A Study Of Partisans’ Square In Uzice, Serbia, Sofija Kaljevic
Exploring Memory Of Place And Place Identity Through Narrative Inquiry: A Study Of Partisans’ Square In Uzice, Serbia, Sofija Kaljevic
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No abstract provided.
Ready To Quit: A Feasibility Study For Practice Change In Smoking Cessation Readiness, Melody Lehosit
Ready To Quit: A Feasibility Study For Practice Change In Smoking Cessation Readiness, Melody Lehosit
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No abstract provided.
Effect Of Maturity And Mineralogy On Fluid-Rock Reactions In The Marcellus Shale, John Pilewski
Effect Of Maturity And Mineralogy On Fluid-Rock Reactions In The Marcellus Shale, John Pilewski
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No abstract provided.
Molecular Evolution Of Sedimentary Organic Matter In Marcellus Shale., Vikas Agrawal
Molecular Evolution Of Sedimentary Organic Matter In Marcellus Shale., Vikas Agrawal
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Several biological and physico-chemical processes lead to the transformation of organic matter (OM) from simple organic compounds to a complex macromolecule and a mixture of hydrocarbons during the geological evolution of sedimentary rocks. These changes are controlled by biological activity in the early stages of burial, and by temperature and pressure in the later stages. The increasing temperature and pressure conditions with burial is termed as maturation, in which biomolecules are converted into petroleum. Three consecutive stages of maturation namely: diagenesis, catagenesis and metagenesis produce irreversible changes in the composition of sedimentary OM. The bulk characteristics (such as elemental composition) …
East Or West? Understanding Strategic Alignment In The Post-Soviet Space, John A. Mowchan
East Or West? Understanding Strategic Alignment In The Post-Soviet Space, John A. Mowchan
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This comparative foreign policy dissertation examines small state alignment in the post-Soviet space. Specifically, I ask what explains change and continuity in the strategic alignment patterns of former Soviet states with the United States and Russian Federation since the end of the Cold War? To answer this question, I analyze the alignment trajectories of ruling governments in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine from 1995 to 2015. While neorealists expect these materially weak states to bandwagon with Russia because of threat or power considerations, the empirical reality does not consistently support these theoretical expectations. What has occurred is that at different …
The(Y), Michael Oliver
The(Y), Michael Oliver
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
This MFA thesis addresses work completed and presented in a thesis exhibition at West Virginia University. It expresses the personal motivations, the process and the inspirations behind the exhibit. Through the use of abstraction, I was searching for a personal change in perspective, and a way to identify with people on a level that mirrors my long-term experience in the military. This was explored by uniformly adding Adobe Photoshop filters, in a step by step manner, to a selected series of portraits., to a selected series of portraits. The hope was by removing the surface characteristics of an individual what …
Constructing A Sense Of Place On Top Of The World, Catherine E. Lovell
Constructing A Sense Of Place On Top Of The World, Catherine E. Lovell
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This thesis examines written texts in summit logs by rock climbers at the peak of Baboquivari, located in southern Arizona. After scaling the mountain, rock climbers complete the ritual of documenting their success in a log located on the summit. Guided by the concepts of sense of place and ritual communication, this study investigated discourses articulated in summit logs in order to understand how rock climbers construct their sense of place for a contested landscape.;Baboquivari is the cosmological home of the Tohono O'odham and their creator I'itoi is believed to reside on the peak today. A good portion of Baboquivari …
Democratizing University Foodscapes? Student Food Cooperatives And The Neoliberal University, Amanda Marple
Democratizing University Foodscapes? Student Food Cooperatives And The Neoliberal University, Amanda Marple
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
According to a report published in 2015, the National Center for Education estimated that over 20 million students were forecasted to enroll in higher education in the 2016--17 school year, situating American universities as major institutional food retailers. Over the past two decades, corporate food providers have increasingly sought long-term public and private university contracts as a means to expand their reach into lucrative campus food landscapes (foodscapes), replacing in-house services with cheaper, more "efficient, and "productive" dining strategies. Companies such as Sodexo, Aramark, and Bon Appetit control the foodscapes of many university campuses across the United States, creating food …
"Home Sweet Away-From-Home?" Morgantown, West Virginia's Sunnyside Neighborhood As A Cultural Landscape, Pamela Yvonne Curtin
"Home Sweet Away-From-Home?" Morgantown, West Virginia's Sunnyside Neighborhood As A Cultural Landscape, Pamela Yvonne Curtin
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Sunnyside is a 130-acre neighborhood bordering West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. Since the 1890s, it has been home to a variety of transient residents, including industrial workers, families, and individuals associated with the University. Beginning in the 1960s, Sunnyside transitioned into Morgantown's primary student neighborhood. Students took up residence in old two- and three-story frame houses broken into smaller units; often, these houses lacked necessary upkeep, failed code standards, and indicated the neighborhood's broader deteriorating conditions. Furthermore, student parties in Sunnyside grew increasingly intense and reflected negatively on West Virginia University, labeled in the 1970s as a "party …
Three Essays On International Mobility And Economic Development, Imran Arif
Three Essays On International Mobility And Economic Development, Imran Arif
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
This dissertation contains research on three topics in economic development. The main argument of this dissertation is that when societies interact, they learn new ideas, superior technologies, and new production processes from each other. Any barriers to this interaction can hurt the diffusion of ideas across nations. Chapter 1 tests the relationship between international travel and institutions. This paper features a neglected channel of institution convergence among countries, i.e., international travel. International travel clearly increases human interaction over space and exposes societies to foreign influences, foreign ideas, and foreign institutions. Does international travel promote institutional change in a traveler's home …
The Experiences Of West Virginians Participating In Extension-Sponsored Educational Programming In Ireland: A Narrative Analysis, Tina A. Cowger
The Experiences Of West Virginians Participating In Extension-Sponsored Educational Programming In Ireland: A Narrative Analysis, Tina A. Cowger
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
In this dissertation, I asked the major research question of: How do non-formal international experiences influence the life stories of participants from Appalachia as they perceive it? I wanted to understand how non-formal educational experiences in an international setting affect the lives of the participants. I especially wanted to understand the ways in which the life stories of the participants from Appalachia were affected by their international experiences.;People tell stories of their lives and their various experiences can impact these narratives and how they share them. From birth and throughout our lives, listening to and telling stories surround us. Society …
Assessing The Alignment Of Preparatory Year Program Vision, Mission, And Goals Statements With First-Year Student Success Principles, Atiyah A. Alghamdi
Assessing The Alignment Of Preparatory Year Program Vision, Mission, And Goals Statements With First-Year Student Success Principles, Atiyah A. Alghamdi
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
This study used the nine steps of Content Analysis (CA) developed by Neuendorf (2002) to assess the alignment of the Preparatory Year Program's vision, mission, and goals statements with the Seven Central Principles of Student Success advanced by Cuseo (2014), and to also explore universities trends in developing the Preparatory Year Programs' students. The nonrandom sampling process, purposive sampling, was utilized for all 28 Saudi public universities. The Unit of Thoughts (UT) extracted from the vision, mission, and goals statements was counted, coded, and used to assess the alignment extent. A pilot study was conducted on seven Preparatory Year Program's …
Visualizing The Impacts Of Extreme Weather Events Using 3d Visualization To Aid Pre-Event Risk Communication, Thomas L. Brown
Visualizing The Impacts Of Extreme Weather Events Using 3d Visualization To Aid Pre-Event Risk Communication, Thomas L. Brown
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Weather is everywhere. Rapidly expanding capabilities in information technology present an opportunity to develop better warning products for extreme weather events. In the wake of recent extreme events from Superstorm Sandy to Hurricane Matthew, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service have repeated the call for improving techniques for disseminating critical information to the general public during potential weather disasters. This research uses 3D GIS and geovisualization to improve the communication of expert risk information to the general public.
Wildlife In An Anthropogenically-Driven World: How Humans Have Shaped The Distribution, Genetic Composition, And Gene Expression Of North American Forest Hawks (Genus: Accipiter), Meghan K. Jensen
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Humans are causing drastic environmental change on a global scale and this trend strongly influences the evolution of species. It is also becoming clear that tolerances to anthropogenic disturbance varies widely among organisms. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms by which wildlife cope with humans is a pressing question in modern ecology. North America's forest raptors (Genus: Accipiter) are a useful model for investigating the effects of humans on wildlife species. All three Accipiter species experienced historic demographic declines as a result of anthropogenic activities, yet each species has rebounded differently since these declines. One species in particular is now exploiting urban …
Iconologia, Heather Ruth Rios
Iconologia, Heather Ruth Rios
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
The ideas and images presented in this paper, and the accompanying exhibition represent a portion of my research in the subjects of the Female Nude in Art History, as well as my exploration of related subjects including female self portraits, the male gaze in art, and the psychological impact of self-made, self-representations by women both in art history, and in contemporary American social media (i.e."selfies").
Social Capital Structure And Dynamics In Stream Restoration: A Social Network Analysis Approach To The Upper Shavers Fork, West Virginia, Paul J. Kinder Jr.
Social Capital Structure And Dynamics In Stream Restoration: A Social Network Analysis Approach To The Upper Shavers Fork, West Virginia, Paul J. Kinder Jr.
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Streams are common pool resources embedded in watersheds representing complex socio-ecological systems that provide ecological goods and services as well as economic and social benefits. They have been referred to as the lifeblood of civilization. Streams, however, are among the most vulnerable natural resources globally to anthropocentric impacts and are all too often in need of restoration. While the primary objective of stream restoration is to bring back healthy ecological functions, other benefits and outcomes from restoration efforts exist, but are often overlooked. These benefits and outcomes relate to effective natural resource governance systems, which rely on social networks comprised …
Movement Ecology Of Philippine Birds Of Prey, Camille B. Concepcion
Movement Ecology Of Philippine Birds Of Prey, Camille B. Concepcion
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Movement ecology is an emerging paradigm important to conservation biology and to the protection of global biodiversity. I used two common, but poorly known Philippine birds of prey as study tools in understanding movement ecology. One species is the migratory grey-faced buzzard (Butastur indicus), a raptor that which visits the islands in large numbers in winter. The other is the resident Philippine serpent eagle (Spilornis holospilus) which lives there at relatively high population density year-round. I used migration data at two terrestrial hawkwatch sites to assess how weather correlates influenced the movement behaviors of grey-faced buzzards. The grey-faced buzzard was …
Insights Into The Assembly Of Arctic Alaska: Provenance And Geochemical Data From The Doonerak Fenster And Endicott Mountains Allochthon, William Patrick Frier
Insights Into The Assembly Of Arctic Alaska: Provenance And Geochemical Data From The Doonerak Fenster And Endicott Mountains Allochthon, William Patrick Frier
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The Doonerak fenster of the central Brooks Range contains the Apoon assemblage, a suite of Early Paleozoic mafic-to-intermediate volcanic and siliciclastic rocks. The fenster exposes deep structural levels of the Brooks Range between regions of Laurentian and non-Laurentian origin in Arctic Alaska. During the Mesozoic to Cenozoic formation of the Brooks Range, Upper Devonian to Triassic siliciclastic and carbonate rocks of the Endicott Mountains allochthon were thrusted northward and juxtaposed over the top of this volcanic suite.;New geochemical data indicates that the Apoon assemblage formed as part of an island arc complex. The assemblage contains basaltic-to-andesitic rocks with diverse textures, …